
The Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel says secular Jews who eat non-kosher “get stupid” and are envious of the ultra-Orthodox.
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef’s inflammatory remarks, made during a weekend sermon days after Yom Kippur, risks exacerbating secular-religious tensions in Israel that erupted in a melee over gender-separate prayer in Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Square on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.