Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef was born in 1952, sixth son of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, former Chief Rabbi of Israel. He heads Yeshivat Hazon Ovadia, and is the author of a popular set of books on Jewish law called Yalkut Yosef, for which he has won the Rabbi Toledano Prize from the Tel Aviv Religious Council, as well as the Rav Kook Prize.

Following studies at the junior yeshiva of Porat Yosef in Jerusalem, he studied at Yeshivat HaNegev in Netivot, and afterwards at Hebron Yeshiva in Jerusalem. In 1973, with his father's election as Chief Rabbi of Israel, together they established the Kollel Hazon Ovadia. In 1980, he was ordained as a rabbi and judge. In 1975, he was appointed rabbi of the moshavim Nes Harim and Mata, near Jerusalem. In 1992 he expanded Hazon Ovadia to a yeshiva for boys high school age and older.

In July 2013 Rabbi Yosef was elected to serve as Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, a position he will hold for the next decade.

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