The Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel Yitzhak Yosef has said that immigrant Jews who moved to Israel during the fall of the Soviet Union were “religion-hating gentiles”.
In video obtained by Ynet, Yosef was heard denouncing “communist, religion-hating gentiles.
“Tens or hundreds of thousands of gentiles came to the country because of the law determining who's Jewish,” he said, referring to the Israeli Law of Return, which grants the right to citizenship to any Jew.
“There are many, many gentiles here, some are communists, hostile to religion, haters of religion. They’re not even Jewish, they’re gentiles.”
