Mass exodus threatened by chief rabbi if haredim are forced into military service
"The yeshivas and kollels hold up the world. The state exists on Torah study, and without the Torah, the army would not have succeeded."
SEPHARDI CHIEF RABBI Yitzhak Yosef speaks at a Shas Party election rally at the Yazdim Synagogue in Jerusalem last year.(photo credit: OLIVIER FITOUSSI/FLASH90)ByYAKI ADAMKERUpdated:
