The religious scholar and spiritual leader of Israel's Sephardic Jews, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef,has died at the age of 93.<br /><br />He founded the ultra-Orthodox Shas party and was a powerful force in the country's politics.<br /><br />Yosef was born in Iraq and came to Jerusalem at the age of four. He was ordained as a rabbi when he was 20.<br /><br />...<br />http://www.euronews.net/