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Rabbi Meir Mazuz

Rabbi Meir Mazuz speaks at a press conference the Yachad political party in Bnei Brak, March 27, 2019. (Yehuda Haim/Flash90)
April 19, 2025, 10:28 pm
Prominent Haredi rabbi known for homophobic remarks, far-right politics dies at 80
Netanyahu and other coalition leaders eulogize Meir Mazuz, who blamed COVID-19 and Meron disaster on homosexuality, denounced Bennett-Lapid government members as ‘worse than Nazis’
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Meir Mazuz speaks at a press conference the Yachad political party in Bnei Brak, March 27, 2019. (Yehuda Haim/Flash90)
January 1, 2023, 4:56 am
Top rabbi calls gay Knesset speaker Ohana ‘infected,’ blames him for Meron disaster
Meir Mazuz, affiliated with several senior members of new government, brands Pride parade-goers ‘animals walking on 2 legs’; has previously blamed LGBTQ marches for COVID, terror
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
Likud MK Israel Katz and Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman. (Collage/Flash90)
June 1, 2022, 9:03 pm
Likud MK: Finance Minister Liberman behaving like ‘history’s biggest antisemites’
Israel Katz tears into Treasury chief’s reforms aimed at reducing state spending on ultra-Orthodox communities, saying he’s is ‘victimizing the Haredim’
By ToI Staff
Israeli president Isaac Herzog speaks at a conference of Israel's National Student and Youth Council in Jerusalem, May 8, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 31, 2022, 9:40 pm
President: Israelis accusing each other of treason, comparing to Nazis is a red line
Herzog expresses frustration at having to use Unity Prize address to explain that language used by Rabbi Meir Mazuz against government ministers is beyond the pale
By ToI Staff
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid holds a press conference in Tel Aviv on April 14, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
May 29, 2022, 11:05 am
Lapid to rabbi who said he’s worse than Nazi: My grandfather was killed in Holocaust
FM notes his father also faced death in Budapest Ghetto; Gantz says ultra-Orthodox Haredi cleric Mazuz’s remarks border on Holocaust denial; PM: ‘Must guard our tongues from evil’
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Meir Mazuz speaks at a press conference the Yachad political party in Bnei Brak, March 27, 2019. (Yehuda Haim/Flash90)
May 29, 2022, 1:31 am
Leading Haredi rabbi: Lapid, Liberman are traitors to their people, worse than Nazis
Meir Mazuz, head of a Bnei Brak yeshiva, says ministers seek to ‘choke Torah students’; explains that ‘the Nazis love their own people; but the ministers hate them’
By ToI Staff
Police stand in front of demonstrators from the Lehava Jewish extremist group at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, on April 22, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
September 13, 2021, 2:49 am
Prominent rabbis protest planned designation of far-right Lehava as terror group
Leading spiritual leaders say the organization, which works to stifle intermarriage and LGBT rights, ‘must be allowed to continue its important activities’
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Meir Mazuz speaks at a press conference the Yachad political party in Bnei Brak, March 27, 2019. (Yehuda Haim/Flash90)
March 8, 2020, 10:57 pm
Israeli rabbi: Coronavirus outbreak is divine punishment for gay pride parades
Meir Mazuz falsely claims Arab states spared, because they ‘don’t have this evil inclination’; modern Orthodox group blasts him for ‘inciting against the LGBT community’
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Meir Mazuz attends a press conference of the Yachad political party in Bnei Brak, December 25, 2014. (Photo by Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
September 11, 2016, 12:35 pm
Top rabbi blames garage collapse, rocket explosion on divine anger
Rabbi Meir Mazuz, head of Tunisian Jewry in Israel, says God’s unhappiness over desecration of Shabbat is cause of recent disasters
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Meir Mazuz attends a press conference of the Yachad political party in Bnei Brak, December 25, 2014. (Photo by Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
November 2, 2015, 8:56 am
Rabbi pins Henkin killings on divine retribution for gay parades
Spiritual leader of failed political party Yachad tells memorial event, attended by children of murdered couple, that ‘immoral acts’ caused wave of terror, Israeli deaths
By Raoul Wootliff
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