Tributes paid to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, founder of Israel's...

  • 11 years ago
More than half a million mourners have attended the funeral of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef who has died at the age of 93.

He was seen as the spiritual leader of Israel's Sephardic Jews and founded the ultra-Orthodox Shas party.

His coffin was flanked by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres.

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