Yitzhak Yosef
Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel
A cross was found graffitied inside a nearby apartment building.
Rabbi Yitzhak Halevi Herzog is credited with authoring the prayer for the well-being of the state and for the soldiers of the IDF and the security forces.
“All these secularists do not understand that without the kollels and yeshivot the army would not have been successful,” Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said.
Secular Jews “don’t find fulfillment in life,” Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said.
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef promoted a policy he himself described as illegal.
“There should be dialogue so that there is not a civil war—we are all the people of Israel, we are all brothers,” says Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel Yitzhak Yosef.
Until now, the defense minister and chief of IDF staff have chosen the leader of the Military Rabbinate.
Religious brotherhood is a prerequisite for “global international brotherhood,” the grand imam of al-Azhar said at the conference.
‘We will not accept converts under new reform,’ Israel’s Sephardi chief rabbi warns
“We call on the religious services minister to not heed the uninfluential rabbis, to wake up,” says Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef.
“According to the Torah, there is no permission to take the law into one’s hands and act violently. The work of restoring order must be left to the police,” said the Chief Rabbinate.
The ruling touched off a firestorm in the Jewish state with right-wing religious politicians slamming the decision, and secular and left-wing groups praising it.
Israel’s Chief Sephardi Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef met with Emirati officials to discuss growing ties between the two peoples, as well as invest Rabbi Levi Duchman with official duties on the ground.
