Shas spiritual leader orders support for coalition legislation in exchange for haredi-backed bills

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, the spiritual leader of the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) party Shas, sent a letter on Tuesday to chairman MK Arye Deri calling on the party to support the coalition’s contentious legislation in exchange for advancing a series of haredi-backed bills.

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