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PM, clergy condemn chief rabbi over virulent attack on Russian immigrants

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Published: 10 January 2020

Last updated: 4 March 2024

Netanyahu labels Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef's remarks that Russians are 'communist, religion-hating gentiles' as ‘outrageous’ amid calls for him to resign

PM chides chief rabbi for maligning Soviet immigrants, MKs call for his ouster (Times of Israel)
Netanyahu says Yitzhak Yosef’s reference to ‘religion-hating gentiles’ is ‘outrageous and inappropriate’; Liberman decries ‘anti-Semitic and racist’ remarks

Israel's Chief Rabbi calls Russian immigrants 'communist, religion-hating gentiles' (Haaretz)
Netanyahu condemns Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef's remarks as 'outrageous’. Politicians and progressive clergy call for his ouster over the tirade at a rabbinical conference

EDITORIAL: Recant, Chief Rabbi (Jerusalem Post)
The chief rabbi then made the conspiratorial claim, which has no factual basis, that these immigrants “were brought to Israel so that they would be a counterweight to the haredi community”
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