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"If they force us to join the army - we will all go abroad.
We will buy tickets, there is no such thing.
This is what the state stands for.
The secularists need to understand that without the Torah - there would be no success for the army.
We saw how the army succeeded on October 7" - this is what the Ashkenazi Sephardi chief rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, said last night in his weekly class on Shabbat evening in Jerusalem and started a tremendous political storm.
Rabbi Yosef is not the rabbi of a community whose salary is paid by its private members, but holds the position of rabbi The head of Israel, who receives his salary from the state fund. In addition, Rabbi Yosef is a judge in the Great Rabbinical Court - the equivalent of the Supreme Court of the Rabbinical Courts. Therefore, he cannot express himself as much as he pleases.
The civil service regulations do not apply to the chief rabbis, but since Both of them, both the Ashkenazi rabbi Rabbi David Lau and the Sephardic rabbi Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, serve as judges, the person authorized to receive complaints about them is the ombudsman for judges and judges, judge Uri Shoham.
Not his first inappropriate statement.
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef/Chief Rabbi
To explain the situation, imagine that the president of the Supreme Court (if Levin's opponent decides to appoint one) will say in a lecture at one of the law faculties that the public serving in the army should leave the country if the ultra-Orthodox are not recruited.
I guess we would have sued long ago in the mud that such a statement would have produced.
Back to Rabbi Yosef's matter.
At the end of 2021, they determined that Rabbi Yosef should be brought to disciplinary proceedings for statements about entire communities in Israeli society, including, ex-CIS, women, and those belonging to the Reform public, against the rule of law and against the judicial system and the Supreme Court, as well as for the fact that he makes statements that have Political tone is prohibited.
that they determined that this behavior of the rabbi is not consistent with the limitations applicable to him by virtue of the disciplinary law to which he is legally bound.
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Authorized to receive complaints about the rabbi.
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However, the Minister of Religious Services and the Minister of Justice to whom the authority has been transferred to order the prosecution of Rabbi Yosef are not expected to do so.
The last hearing held on the subject was about a week ago, in a petition in the Supreme Court last Monday, which concerned the disciplinary prosecution applied to the judges of Rabbi Yosef, who serves as a judge in the Great Rabbinical Court and the Chief Rabbi of Israel.
The judges expressed their displeasure at Rabbi Yosef's inappropriate statements and made it clear that there is no place for such statements by any rabbi serving in the public service.
In view of Rabbi Yosef's imminent retirement from his position, the effectiveness of the relief requested in the petition has been called into question and the verdict is now awaited.
Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef has to retire from his position at the end of the year, so it seems that this statement will also pass away without him being brought to disciplinary proceedings.
And a final word: of all the difficult things we heard last night from Rabbi Yosef, it seems that the most disappointing thing was to see how unguided the rabbi is on the issue, and how easy the influence of businessmen is on him, who allow him to say irresponsible things in times of war.
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