In addition to calling for a hostage deal, Rabbi Yosef said that it is permissible to release terrorists who committed criminal acts as part of the deal.

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, the former chief Sephardi rabbi and a leading figure in the Shas party, told yeshiva students this week to take the IDF draft notices sent to them, “tear them up, throw them ...

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef on Sunday slowly approached his desk and turned over the remains of his burned books following an arson attack at his synagogue, Or Habib, in Jerusalem’s Sanhedria neighborhood.