Ovadia Yosef
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Talmudic scholar, posek and Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ovadia Yosef was an Iraqi-born Talmudic scholar, a posek, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983, and a founder and long-time spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas party. Yosef's responsa were highly regarded within Haredi circles, particularly among Mizrahi communities, among whom he was regarded as "the most important living halakhic authority".
