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Chief Sephardic rabbi lashes out at High Court after Haredi conscription ruling
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Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attends a prayer for the release of Israelis held hostage in Gaza, at Rachel's Tomb, near the Palestinian West Bank city of Bethlehem, October 25, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
In his latest controversial outburst, Chief Sephardic Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef lashes out at the High Court of Justice after it ruled this week that ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students must enlist in the military.
During his weekly sermon, Yosef charges that secular judges “don’t know a single page” of Talmud.
“It’s all gentile laws,” Yosef says in a video clip from the sermon.
“They can’t hold a candle to our rabbis. I need to be afraid of them?” he adds rhetorically.
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