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.
Shas spiritual leader appears to open door to Eisenkot government, says Netanyahu ‘won’t repent’
Shas spiritual leader orders support for coalition legislation in exchange for haredi-backed bills
Shas spiritual leader: Iran deal is punishment for draft dodger arrests, A-G is 'wicked woman'
Chief Rabbi: Leave phones on during Shabbat
Yosef also ruled that all synagogues at hospitals should be closed since it is hard for people to keep a distance of two meters (6.6 feet) while in them.
Despite coronavirus, chief rabbi permits prayer services of 15 people
The chief rabbi wrote in his ruling that the public should strictly adhere to the instructions of the health authorities
Know Comment: What’s Yitzhak Yosef’s strategy?
One must wonder what Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef was thinking when last week he launched into a tirade against non-Jewish Russian immigrants to Israel.
Tzohar rabbis: Happy, halachic, and in love with the Jewish people
The media are wrong: Politics isn’t always the answer – leadership is.
‘Change Law of Return,’ says chief rabbi following FSU ‘non-Jews’ comments
The chief rabbi went on to defend himself, insisting that he had already said but would repeat that the majority of immigrants from the former Soviet Union were Jewish
Chief Rabbi Yosef calls on public not to use judicial courts
His comments generated strong criticism from liberal groups, including the Hiddush religious pluralism organization, which called for the position of chief rabbi to be abolished.
Chief Rabbi blasts world religious leaders for not condemning terrorism
“It is forbidden for us to be silent, silence is tantamount to identifying with terror.”
Political deal for Chief Rabbinate Council upheld with one exception
Rabbi Eliezer Simcha Weiss, chief municipal rabbi of Kfar Haroeh was elected to council despite the lack of political support.
Meeting cancelled over women in the army
“The politics of the defense minister and the orders of the IDF chief of staff do not overrule the law”.
Bill seeks to extend rabbinical court oversight abroad
The new law would enable the rabbinical courts to do so even if neither spouse has citizenship or is a resident of the country.