Yossef, Ovadia (1920-2013)
- Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “Goyim were born only to serve us” — Oct. 2010
Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, during his Saturday night sermon, on different dates. - Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “They’re stupid. Their religion is as ugly as they are” — Dec. 2009
Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi, about Muslims, during a Saturday evening sermon. - Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “Blacks will study the Torah? [God said] let’s bring a tsunami and drown them” — Jul. 2005
Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, establishing a divine accounting during a Saturday evening sermon. - Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “In the old city of Jerusalem they are swarming like ants. They should go to hell” — Jul. 27 2001
Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi, on the occasion of the commemoration of the destruction of the first temple in the 7th century B.C.E. - Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “You must send missiles to them and annihilate them” — Apr. 12 2001
Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, during a sermon. - Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “God regrets having created these Ishmaelites [Arabs]” — Aug. 5 2000
Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, religious leader of the Shas party. - Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “How can you make peace with a snake” — Aug. 2000
Ex-Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel (1973-1983), who became the spiritual leader” of the religious Shas party, in his Saturday evening sermon, about peace with the Palestinians. - Quotation from Ovadia Yossef “The six million Holocaust victims were reincarnations of the souls of sinners” — Aug. 2000
Ex-Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel (1973-1983), who became the “spiritual leader” of the religious Shas party, resuming the religious rationalization of the genocide of European Jews. Saturday sermon.