Rabbi Ovadia Yosef has been referred to as the Posek HaDor ("Posek of the present Generation"), Gadol HaDor ("great/est (one of) the generation"), Maor Yisrael ("The Light of Israel") and Maran.
Following this principle of leniency Rabbi Ovadia Yosef has made a number of Halakhic rulings which are significantly more lenient and different than those made by his Ashkenazi Haredi counterparts. Among them are:
· Rabbi Yosef holds a Halakhically ambivalent view towards Zionism as the Atchalta D'geula (beginning of the redemption). He views Israel as the first flowering of the redemption. In a well-known Halakhic ruling regarding recognizing, supporting and praying every Shabbat for the state of Israel also saying of Hallel on Yom Haatzmaut (Independence day of Israel), Rabbi Yosef writes that although the Jewish people experienced a miracle with the establishment of the State of Israel, the miracle did not include all of the Jewish people and, therefore, Hallel should not be said with a blessing.
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