Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi called on Islamic clerics who published a call for suicide bombings to rescind the order. “Whoever calls a suicide bomber a martyr is an accessory to the horrible crime,” Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron said Wednesday. “I call on the leaders of the Arab world who are condemning this terrible tragedy to call on religious leaders to immediately cancel the definition of a suicide bomber as a martyr and forbid all large-scale attacks.”
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