Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah
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Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah is the rabbinical body that has the ultimate authority in the Israeli ultra-Orthodox Sephardic and Mizrahi Shas Party.
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is seated, with his son Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef to his right, Rabbi Shalom Cohen at the far right, and Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron in the back. Shimon Peres stands at the far left.
Shimon Baadani
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Shimon Baadani, also spelled Shimon Ba'adani, was a leading Sephardi rabbi and rosh kollel in Israel. He was the co-founder and dean of Kollel Torah V'Chaim in Bnei Brak, and served as president of dozens of Torah institutions. He was also a senior leader of the Shas political party and a member of that party's Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah rabbinical leadership council.
Baadani giving a shiur in 2018
Baadani at a cornerstone-laying ceremony in Harish, Israel, 2015