Former chief Sephardic rabbi Yitzhak Yosef threatened that if yeshiva students are arrested for dodging the draft, the ultra-Orthodox community will leave Israel. Yosef argued that the Torah protects soldiers and that Israel's anti-missile defenses succeed due to yeshiva students' studies.
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