"Why are Gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat. That is why Gentiles were created."
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Ovadia Yosef
Ovadia Yosef (Hebrew: ืขืืืืื ืืืกืฃโฌ Ovadya Yosef, Arabic: ุนุจุฏ ุงููู ููุณูโ, translit. Abdullah Yusuf; September 24, 1920 โ October 7, 2013) was an Iraqi-born Talmudic scholar, a posek, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1973 to 1983, and the founder and long-time spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas party. Yosef's responsa were highly regarded within Haredi circles, particularly among Mizrahi communities, among whom he was regarded as "the most important living halakhic authority".
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