A former Ashkenazi chief rabbi in Israel reportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he would not change his directive calling on the National Religious Party to quit the government if Israel agreed to a further redeployment in the West Bank. Avraham Shapira said he did not have the power to change the directive, which he said was based on Jewish religious law, for mere political expediency.
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