After the storm, around the chief rabbi they try to soften: "Those who don't study should enlist" - voila! news. Despite the conciliatory words, those around Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef make it clear that he did not change his positions overnight.
The chief rabbi's words were condemned along the political spectrum, but Netanyahu and the Likud party have yet to officially comment on them. "If they force us to go to the army, we will all go abroad", as he put it.