About Isaac Joseph
Yitzhak Yosef (Hebrew: יִצְחָק יוֹסֵף, lit. 'Isaac Joseph'; born (1952-01-16)January 16, 1952) is an Israeli Haredi rabbi. The former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, he also serves as the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Hazon Ovadia in Jerusalem's Romema neighborhood. Since the end of his term as Chief Rabbi, he joined Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah, the rabbinic leadership council of the Shas party. Yosef, the son of former chief rabbi Ovadia Yosef, bases his halakhic (Jewish law) rulings on his father's methodology, which he compiled into a set of books called Yalkut Yosef. He received the Israel Prize in Rabbinical literature for the year 2024. == Early life == Yitzhak Yosef was born and raised in Jerusalem. He is the sixth son of the former Israeli Chief Rabbi and Shas spiritual leader Ovadia Yosef. He attended school at Talmud Torah Yavneh in the Independent Education System. At age 12 he began his studies at the mesivta (high school) of Porat Yosef in the Katamon neighbourhood. He did not finish high school, and called secular studies "nonsense".
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