The spiritual head of Israel's extremist ultra-Orthodox Shas party, which forms part of the ruling coalition, has hit out at US demands that Israel halt Jewish settlement activity. "What right do they have to tell us 'here you can build, here you can't build,'" Rabbi Ovadia Yosef said. "We are not their slaves." |
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