Hagaon HaRav Yitzchak Yosef, made sharp remarks about Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu during his weekly Motzaei Shabbos shiur, saying he does not believe the prime minister will ever do teshuvah.

Speaking about the spiritual state of Israel, Rav Yosef said, “Unfortunately, we are living in a secular state, not a Chareidi state. We daven that everyone should return in teshuvah. Some people have returned in teshuvah. There are some that I don’t believe will return in teshuvah. Bibi Netanyahu will be Chozer Be’Teshuva? There is no chance. Eisenkot perhaps will be Chozer Be’teshuvah”.

Rav Yosef also referenced previous comments he made about Netanyahu’s relationship with his late father, Maran Harav Ovadia Yosef zt”l.

“Netanyahu is insolent,” Rav Yosef said. “He said my father was a politician after my father expressed sorrow over yeshiva bochurim. How can he speak so disrespectfully?”

He also reiterated a past claim that had Harav Shalom Cohen zt”l still been alive, “he would have shouted at the Shas representatives: ‘Why are you relying on Bibi? He is an atheist.'”

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