Ya’alon slams national religious ‘radicalization’

20 July 2016, 4:18 pm

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Former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon comes out against Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, who last week called homosexuals “deviants.” Levinstein’s remarks point to a broader “radicalization” within the national religious community, charged the former Likud minister.

“The fact that this discourse is being led by someone who is supposed to be an educator points to radicalization,” says Ya’alon. “In the army, too. These comments should have the heads of the pre-army programs and members of the [national religious] community engage in soul-searching, because unfortunately — in the Knesset and in other places as well — the national religious community is leading a process of radicalization in a most dangerous way.”