Rav Ovadiah Yosef - (1920-2013), Baghdad, Yerushalayim; Former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel and one of the foremost Talmudic authorities of his generation. In 1948, returned to Israel from Egypt and in 1968 attained the role of Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv-Jaffa, followed by Chief Rabbi of Israel in 1973.
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