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Bereaved Father Rebukes Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef Over Trump, Draft Row

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50% centerFirst reported by Behadrei Haredim · 5 days ago

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Bereaved father Hagai Lober attacked Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef after Yosef blamed Donald Trump’s worsening attitude toward Israel on arrests of ultra-Orthodox draft evaders. Lober accused opponents of military service of ignoring the war’s human cost, while Yosef defended yeshiva exemptions and blamed the attorney general.

01Hagai Lober condemned Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef’s claim about Trump and draft arrests.
02Lober accused draft opponents of ignoring the war’s burden for two and a half years.
03He asked the ultra-Orthodox public, “Where is common sense, is this Torah?”
04Yosef said yeshiva exemptions date back to Ben-Gurion and “the Torah protects us.”
05Yosef blamed Trump’s shift on pressure against yeshiva students and the attorney general.

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