Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is the
spiritual leader of the
ultra-Orthodox Shas party in
Israel. He basically tells all of
Shas' ministers what to do and
how to vote. He holds
the last word for
Sephardic Jews in Israel, and has come up with exciting insights of
Jewish dos and don'ts, and
Politics in general such as
Almost a sixth of the Israelis voted for Shas in the last elections, and most of them take his word as holy.
Editors note: After being hospitalized for a series of illnesses, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef died Monday October 7, 2013. He was 93 years old.