Yosef recalled endorsing ‘land for peace’ principle

Channel 2 commentator Amnon Abramovich opines that for all Yosef’s landmark halachic rulings, he will be remembered and is most significant for the one that held that the Israeli government can relinquish territory for peace.

The Shas party’s MKs enabled the implementation of the Oslo peace accords in the mid ’90s by remaining in the Rabin government while they were passed by the Knesset.

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