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 Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef during a shaharit prayer in the northern Israeli city of Tzfat, September 17, 2024.

'Throw them in the toilet': Yitzhak Yosef urges students to 'tear up' draft orders

By YAKI ADAMKER
 Ultra-orthodox Jews protest against being drafted into the IDF.

Haredim unwilling to draft are the new Zealots in Israel

By JONATHAN LIEBERMAN
 Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks during the funeral of  Yehuda Deri, the chief rabbi of Beersheba in Jerusalem on July 9, 2024.

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef calls on gov't to agree to hostage deal

 Israel's chief rabbis seen as a playing card in this AI-made illustration

Two rabbis too many? A look at Israel's confusing chief rabbi system

 Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef sells the hametz (leavened food) of the State of Israel to Arab Israeli Mr Jaber before the upcoming Passover holiday in Jerusalem, April 21, 2024.

Sephardi chief rabbi: Success of air defense is due to yeshivas, not the IDF

 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv in October.

Netanyahu is living in a delusional fantasy - opinion

By MORDECHAI BECK
 Protesters march toward Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef's office. April 2, 2024

Protesters present Sephardi chief rabbi with 'Dividing Israel' award

 Ultra-Orthodox men line up at an IDF draft office to process their exemptions from mandatory military service.

Editor's Notes: Talk to haredim, not their leaders, about enlistment

 Israel's Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau attends a ceremony of the Israeli police for the Jewish new year at the National Headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem on September 5, 2021.

Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi hints criticism towards Sephardic counterpart on 'exodus' of haredi Jews

 The leadership of Shas. History has summoned them to their beautiful hour, but instead they turn it into our bad hour.

Amid the haredi draft debate, Shas is dragging Israel into its past traumas

By NIR KIPNISS
 EPHARDI CHIEF Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef was busy insulting more than half of Israel, declaring that when a person eats non-kosher food ‘his brain becomes stupid,’ the writer notes

Center Field: Rabbis not supporting the war against Hamas are acting irresponsibly

 Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks during the funeral procession of Rabbi Elimelech Wasserman, a senior judge in the Rabbinical Court, in Jerusalem. Rabbi Wasserman was killed in a terror attack earlier today. November 30, 2023.

Israeli government officials slam chief rabbi's threat of haredi exodus

SEPHARDI CHIEF RABBI Yitzhak Yosef speaks at a Shas Party election rally at the Yazdim Synagogue in Jerusalem last year.

Mass exodus threatened by chief rabbi if haredim are forced into military service

By YAKI ADAMKER
 ASHKENAZI CHIEF Rabbi David Lau (left) and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef: The silence of our two chief rabbis is thunderously indicative of the abject state of these once meaningful and relevant positions, the writer argues.

Rabbinate releases instructions for keeping Shabbat during wartime

 Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks during a ceremony of the Israeli police for the Jewish new year at the National Headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem on September 22, 2022.

Israel's chief rabbi: Secular Jews have lower intelligence, are jealous of haredim

 President Isaac Herzog speaks with Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef in a sukkah, Sunday, October 1, 2023.

Herzog visits sukkot of Chief Rabbis ahead of his own sukkah 'open house'

 National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visits the Temple Mount, May 21, 2023

Sephardi Chief Rabbi says Ben-Gvir's Temple Mount visits 'cause sin'

 ASHKENAZI CHIEF Rabbi David Lau and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef at an event in Jerusalem earlier this year. Who is lining up to replace them?

Israel's chief rabbi elections to be delayed by at least six months - report