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Avraham Yosef
Harav Avraham Yosef is the Chief Rabbi of Holon, Israel and is a Sephardi representative on the Chief Rabbinate Council (Moetzet Harabbanut Harashit).
Background.
Harav Avraham Yosef is a son of Shas' spiritual leader, and former Israeli Chief Rabbi, Ovadia Yosef, and a brother of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef, a Jerusalem politician who was a member of the Eleventh Knesset. Yosef served for thirteen years in the Military Rabbinate and in 2013 would be the first choice of his father to be nominated for the
Avraham Yosef Shapira
Avraham Yosef Shapira (; born 2 March 1921, died 26 June 2000) was an Israeli politician and businessman.
Biography.
Born in Romania in 1921, Shapira attended the Kokhav MeYa'akov yeshiva in Trzebinia, and was later certified as a teacher. He made aliyah to Israel in 1949. He began working with his father, a furrier. In 1959 he bought a carpet factory, Carmel Carpets, in Or Akiva. At its peak the business employed 1,600 employees and had an annual turnover of $