Shas slams PM over Ukraine comments: 'God has always protected the Jewish people'

The ultra-Orthodox Shas party criticizes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his comments earlier today suggesting that Jewish pilgrims would be in danger if they traveled to Uman for Rosh Hashana.

“God always protected the Jewish people during persecution, this is the reason that the Jewish nation is the only one which has miraculously survived for thousands of years,” the party says in a statement.

“Of course, the condition for divine providence is adherence to faith and observance,” the party adds.

Earlier, Netanyahu warned worshipers from traveling to Uman in Ukraine for the holiday, saying that “God has not always protected us in Europe.”