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Religious Services Ministry chief says he’d leave Israel if Haredim are drafted
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"
Echoing Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, Religious Services Ministry director-general Yehudah Avidan says he would leave the country if the government begins to draft Haredim.
“If they give me the order, I will leave the country,” Avidan tells national broadcaster Kan, following Yosef’s statement on Saturday evening that those who learn Torah are must not be drafted “under any circumstances, no matter what” and that if yeshiva students are forcibly enlisted, the Haredim would “go abroad.”
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