The Ma'ayan HaChinuch HaTorani , is an education network in Israel

Israel

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, founded in 1984 by the Sephardi Rabbi Ovadia Yosef

Ovadia Yosef

Ovadia Yosef is the former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, a recognised Talmudic scholar and foremost halakhic authority.He currently serves as the spiritual leader of the Shas political party in the Israeli parliament...

 for the purpose of providing a religious "Torah

Torah

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" education to the Sephardi community. Rabbi Yosef still serves as the head of the organization.

It currently operates 130 schools throughout Israel.

The secretary general is Rabbi Moshe Maya

Moshe Maya

Moshe Maya is an Israeli rabbi and former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Shas between 1992 and 1996, and as Deputy Minister of Education and Culture from 1992 until 1993.-Biography:...

. One of its former secretary generals, Rabbi Yitzhak Cohen

Yitzhak Cohen

Rabbi Yitzhak Cohen is an Israeli politician who has served as a member of the Knesset for Shas since 1996, and is the current Deputy Minister of Finance.-Biography:Born in Ashkelon, Cohen served on the city's council and was its former deputy mayor....

, currently serves as the deputy finance minister of Israel.