A leading Israeli rabbi called Prime Minister Ariel Sharon “evil” because of his plan to withdraw settlers from the Gaza Strip In his weekly sermon Tuesday night, former Sephardi chief rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the spiritual head of Shas, said, “God should strike him a fatal blow, that he should go to sleep and never get up,”
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