The spiritual leader of the fervently Orthodox Shas Party assailed Israel’s judicial system and its public schools. In his weekly sermon, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef warned that a person who turns to the state legal system, especially seeking to bypass a religious court ruling, would contract cancer or leprosy, the Israeli daily Ma’ariv quoted him as saying.
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