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Rabbi Tamir Granot’s son, Capt. Amitay Zvi Granot, was killed shortly after Hamas’s October 7 attack in an incident on the Lebanon border while fighting Hezbollah.<\/p>\n
The former Sephardi chief rabbi of Israel and Shas spiritual leader, Yitzhak Yosef<\/a>, sharply criticized the head of Yeshivat Orot Shaul in southern Tel Aviv, Rabbi Tamir Granot, on Sunday during a Kol Hai radio broadcast, after Granot advocated for the enlistment of the haredi<\/a> (ultra-Orthodox) sector into the IDF.<\/p>\n Granot’s son, Capt. Amitay Zvi Granot, was killed shortly after Hamas’s October 7 attack in an incident on the Lebanon border while fighting Hezbollah. Yosef claimed that Rabbi Granot was among several yeshiva heads who attacked him on television.<\/p>\n “Aren’t you afraid of dishonoring Torah scholars?” Yosef asked him.<\/p>\n Yosef continued, alluding to Granot, “I think there are some of them that, if they come to join the minyan, we won’t accept them. They are heretics. Not all of them.”<\/p>\n Granot had previously decried Yosef while he was chief rabbi, after Yosef threatened to leave Israel if the authorities forced haredi yeshiva students to enlist.<\/p>\n