Rabbi Yosef on the things that caused an uproar: "They twisted my words in a twisted way" - voila! news. Israel's chief rabbi clarified today that he had no intention of harming the families of the abductees and the soldiers whose "rank is high in the heavens" Yosef claimed that they made political use of his words and twisted them, and that contrary to what they said, one should pray every day for the soldiers.
However, he did not retract his statement that "if they force us to join the army, we will all go abroad"