Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi calls former Soviet immigrants ‘religion-hating gentiles’ Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef accused the state of deliberately inviting Soviet immigrants to Israel to weaken the political power of the haredi Orthodox.
Israeli chief rabbi likens black child born to white parents to a monkey Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef was attempting to explain a point of ritual when he used the term "Kushi," which is now seen as a mild pejorative in Israel.
Sephardi chief rabbi: Women can do the laundry in the army, not serve in combat Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef said that if Jews in Israel followed the Torah, "many [military] tragedies would be averted.”
