Israel’s Chief Sephardic Rabbi has made his first public pronouncements surrounding the vexed issue of Israeli settlements.

In a letter addressed to American Jewry Rabbi Shlomo Amar asked his co-religionists in the States to exert “pressure” on the Obama administration over U.S. settlement policies.

The Rabbi invoked the Torah in his comments and said that he was speaking purely from a religious point of view:

“In his first public declaration on Jewish settlements in Judea and Samaria, Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar called this week on American Jews to explain to the Obama administration the religious obligation of every Jew to live in every part of the Land of Israel.

In a letter addressed to American rabbinical organizations and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations that was obtained by The Jerusalem Post, Amar wrote that “the Torah commands the Jewish people to live in Israel. And we hear that the US is putting pressure on the Israeli government to prevent Jews from living or building their homes in large parts of the Land of Israel…..

…”We ask you to take advantage of your strength and power to influence the authorities in the US, that they should examine the issue with truly democratic criteria and to take into consideration the Torah and the Halacha that obligate Jews to settle everywhere.”

Amar wrote that he was not speaking from a political or diplomatic point of view, rather solely from a religious point of view.” {Source: Jerusalem Post}

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