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Rabbi Yosef Ovadia Was Installed As Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv

June 19, 1969
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Rabbi Yosef Ovadia was installed yesterday as Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv in a solemn ceremony held at the Great Synagogue here. Israel’s Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi Isser Untermann and Minister of the Interior Moshe Shapiro were present, as was Army Chief Chaplain Shlomo Goren.

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