Haaretz | Rabbi Ovadia Yosef: Sectorial party leader or a social revolutionary? Haaretz ... Jews as full-fledged Jews, his granting of official rabbinically sanctioned widowhood to women whose husbands were killed in the Yom Kippur War but whose status as widows was uncertain, and his permitting organ harvesting in cases of brain death. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Sephardi chief rabbi and Shas spiritual leader, dies at 93 |