Rosh Yeshivas Kisei Rachamaim HaRav Meir Mazuz harshly censured Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Motzei Shabbos, calling them “worse than Nazis.” HaRav Mazuz said during his weekly shiur: “There are many reshaim there – we hope that this government will disappear from the world. Finance Minister Lieberman and alternate prime minister Lapid…alternate (chaluf) means pig in Arabic….they made a decision to choke the avreichim.” “It’s unbelievable, they give as much as possible to the Arabs. They betray their people, they hate their people, they’re worse than Nazis. At least the Nazis loved their own people but these people hate their people. They want to destroy children, the elderly and Talmudei Chachamim. Why do they want to destroy the Torah? It’s through the Torah’s merit that we’ve survived for 2,000 years.” Reports of HaRav Mazuz’s remarks sparked a political uproar on Sunday. Lapid responded by stating: “HaRav Mazuz, the Nazis murdered my grandfather in the concentration camp, they tried to destroy my father in the ghetto. The only answer I have for your comments is that I love all of Am Yisrael and I wish HaRav Mazuz a Yom Yerushalayim Sameach, a day of achdus and ahavas Yisrael.” Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said: “Even at the height of controversy and anger – we won’t compare our brothers to the greatest of our oppressors.” Defense Minister Benny Gantz tweeted: “I strongly condemn the words of HaRav Mazuz which border on trivializing the Holocaust. Jerusalem, which was taken from us due to baseless hatred was united on the basis of our fortitude and unity. Davka on this day, we should remember the importance of love between us.” (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

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