Ovadia Yosef

Shas has launched its election campaign by recycling a successful 2022 video featuring Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and emphasizing traditional Jewish identity.

Thirteen years after the passing of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, his legacy endures despite a recent legal controversy canceling the state-funded memorial event over election concerns.

Following court rejections of state funding for an official memorial for Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the Shas party will finance dozens of nationwide commemorative events.

The High Court of Justice will hear a Shas petition against the postponement of a state-funded memorial conference for Rabbi Ovadia Yosef until after the October 27 elections, following an Attorney General ruling.

Ovadia Cohen, grandson of late Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, publicly detailed childhood sexual abuse at a Jerusalem yeshiva, seeking to help other survivors and shift the shame.

Channel 14 petitioned the Supreme Court for permission to live broadcast the upcoming hearing on Shas's petition regarding a state memorial event for Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.

Shas has filed an urgent Supreme Court petition against Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara over her decision to cancel a state-funded memorial conference for Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, citing selective enforcement compared to Rabin memorial events.

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."