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Liberman slams Haredi rabbi who called for ‘global struggle’ against state
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman slams Rabbi Dov Lando, the spiritual leader of the ultra-Orthodox Degel HaTorah party, after he declares that the “State of Israel has declared war on yeshiva students.”
“The people of Israel are mobilized to fight our enemy. The entire Haredi leadership is mobilized to fight the IDF, the troops and the reservists who are carrying the burden,” Liberman says in a statement, promising that Israel’s next government “will put an end to evasion.”
In a subsequent tweet, Liberman notes that Lando is currently holding an emergency at his home to discuss the Haredi community’s response to the arrest of draft dodgers “while our soldiers are fighting on all fronts and risking their lives.”
“If they mobilized for the security of the state as they are mobilizing for evasion, the State of Israel would be stronger and more united,” he adds.
Earlier this year, Liberman filed a police complaint against several prominent ultra-Orthodox rabbis, including Lando, over statements calling on yeshiva students to ignore IDF enlistment orders in apparent violation of the law.
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