Israel’s attorney general decided against ordering a criminal investigation into the leader of the fervently Orthodox Shas Party. Just the same, Elyakim Rubinstein said he had been shocked by recent comments that Rabbi Ovadia Yosef had made against the Supreme Court. In a televised interview earlier this month, Yosef lashed out at what he felt were the anti-religious rulings of the court and called the justices “oppressors of Jews.”
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