Ovadia Yosef

The Chairman of the Central Elections Committee, Judge Noam Solberg, responded today (Friday) to the Shas party's petition against the Attorney General's decision, claiming that he has no authority to review or cancel her directive to postpone the state memorial assembly for Rabbi Ovadia Yosef until after the elections.

Gali Baharav-Miara clarified that an academic conference to commemorate Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, which the Ministry of Religious Services requested to hold with government funding before the elections, can only take place after them. However, the memorial service and state ceremonies can proceed as planned. Attorney General: "Both goals will be preserved - both the commemoration of the Rabbi and the...

Adina Bar-Shalom and Rivka Chikotai claimed that the memorial service for their father had become an "election rally" funded by the state. The two called for the responsibility for the events to be transferred to the family: "To hold a state and worthy memorial service - and not an election."

Following Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef's harsh attack on the Attorney General, the daughters of the late spiritual leader have opened an unprecedented front against the Shas party and its current leadership.

Gali Baharav-Miara demands to postpone state memorial events for fear of using state resources for election propaganda. The Shas party, which uses the Rabbi's image in its campaign, attacked sharply: "The insolent demand is a severe insult to the memory of the teacher and also a trampling of the law. The regime of the Attorney General is trying to erase every spark of Torah and Judaism."