Last week, the Jewish Telegraph reported President Isaac Herzog’s fears of “blood on the streets” if civil war breaks out.

And now the country’s Sephardi Chief Rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, has declared: “All the disputes and civil war — this is worrying and very painful.”

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