Yitzhak Yosef

Why Gadi Eisenkot is rejecting the haredi political embrace that once helped Netanyahu win

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: Yitzhak Yosef’s embrace – and Eisenkot's effort to distance himself from it – reflects Israel's shifting political landscape.

Amid reports that the Shas Party could be willing to sit with him in government, Yashar Party head Gadi Eisenkot did not rule out that option entirely. Here, Eisenkot attends the Sagi Laws for Equality Confrence at the Peres Center in Jaffa earlier this week.
Head of Shas party Aryeh Deri and Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef visit at the scene of suspected arson and vandalism at a Jerusalem synagogue which is often frequented by Rabbi Yosef, June 8, 2025.

Shas spiritual leader appears to open door to Eisenkot government, says Netanyahu ‘won’t repent’

 ARYE DERI sits in the Knesset plenum.

Shas spiritual leader orders support for coalition legislation in exchange for haredi-backed bills

Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, during a weekly teaching at the Yazdim synagogue in Jerusalem, on June 7, 2025.

Shas spiritual leader: Iran deal is punishment for draft dodger arrests, A-G is 'wicked woman'


Who will be Israel's next chief rabbis?

RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS: Next summer, Israel’s chief rabbis, David Lau and Yitzhak Yosef, will end their 10-year terms.

 ASHKENAZI CHIEF Rabbi David Lau and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef at an event in Jerusalem earlier this year. Who is lining up to replace them?

Letters to the Editor December 14, 2022: Lack of responsibility

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

 Letters

Chief Rabbi Yosef: Reform, Conservative Judaism is a new religion

"Have you ever seen a Reformer [Jew] who repented? I didn't see any, there are none. They feel they are okay; that they have a religion, but they have a new religion."

 Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks during a ceremony of the Israeli police for the Jewish new year at the National Headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem on September 22, 2022.

Liberman calls for Sephardi chief rabbi to be fired over Override Clause comments

In response to the the Sephardi chief rabbi's comments, Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman demand that he be fired.

 Outgoing Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman, Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef

Sephardi chief rabbi on Ben-Gvir: Stay away from him

Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef spoke out against MK Itamar Ben-Gvir's visits to the Temple Mount, claiming that he desecrates God's name by going there.

 Religious Zionist Party MK Itamar Ben Gvir at the Temple Mount on Jerusalem Day, May 29, 2022.

Israel's chief rabbis call for rally to pray for Ukraine at the Western Wall

"The sorrow and pain of the Jews of Ukraine touched the hearts of all Jews around the world," Israel's chief rabbis wrote in a letter.

 PRAYERS AT the Kotel.

Yitzhak Yosef has no business being chief rabbi of Israel - opinion

Change system and criteria for choosing next chief rabbis long before the next vote in 2023

SEPHARDI CHIEF RABBI Yitzhak Yosef speaks at a Shas Party election rally at the Yazdim Synagogue in Jerusalem last year.

You need math, English for Torah: Rebuttal to Chief Rabbi Yosef - opinion

Everyone should learn Torah, plenty of it, but it’s rather hard to learn Torah without the aid of the skills imparted by what is called the core curriculum.

CHILDREN STUDY Hebrew letters at a school in Mea She’arim.

Chief Rabbi Yosef: Science, math are nonsense, study in yeshiva instead

The chief rabbi spoke proudly of not finishing school or having a high school diploma, and said learning Torah was far more important.

Chief Sephardic Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef at a Remembrance Day 2021 Ceremony

Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef endorses Alliance of Rabbis in Islamic States

Association of over 40 rabbis in 14 Muslim-majority countries helps local Jewish communities with communal needs and relations with governments

Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef is seen meeting local religious leaders in the United Arab Emirates.