An influential Israeli rabbi backed the planned withdrawals from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank. Rabbi Yitzhak Kadouri, a kabbalist particularly revered by Jews of Sephardic descent, said in an interview with the religious journal Family this week that Israel must give peace with the Palestinians a chance.
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