Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef has faced a public backlash after saying that according to Jewish law some non-Jews should be forbidden to live in Israel. Yosef made the statement about non-Jews on March 26 during his weekly Saturday night lecture. “According to Jewish law, it’s forbidden for a non-Jew to live in the Land of Israel – unless he has accepted the seven Noahide laws” RT reports: Non-Jews who fail to live by the seven Noahide laws should be expelled to Saudi Arabia, he added. “If he’s not willing to accept one of them, [which is] not to commit suicide, if he’s not willing to accept this, you send him to Saudi Arabia,” Yosef said. The seven Laws of Noah include prohibitions against idolatry, blaspheming God, murder, illicit sexual relations, stealing and eating a limb of a live animal. It also prescribes the establishment of a legal system that would ensure obedience to the law. If a non-Jew stays in Israel, he has to serve the Jews, the Rabbi said. “Who will be the servers? Who will be our assistants? Therefore, we leave them here in the land,” he said. However, following a wave public outrage, Yosef had to backtrack [...]