JERUSALEM: Ovadia Yosef, rabbi and Israeli kingmaker, dies

BY MARK LAVIE
ASSOCIATED PRESS

JERUSALEM -- Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the religious scholar and spiritual leader of Israel's Sephardic Jews who transformed his downtrodden community of immigrants from North Africa and Arab nations and their descendants into a powerful force in Israeli politics, died on Monday. He was 93.

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