The head rabbi of a far-right West Bank yeshiva declared Monday after his school was ousted from the Israel Defense Forces hesder program that he was going to join Hezbollah to "seek his inner truth."

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, whose Har Bracha Yeshiva's status was revoked late Sunday, wrote in an article published on Arutz 7 that he had skipped a critical hearing on the matter with Defense Minister Ehud Barak because he would not give in to "governmental pressure."

"Although I knew by the Defense Minister's rudeness that this could cause the end of the arrangement with Yeshiva Har Bracha," wrote Melamed. "And despite all of the harsh significance that it entailed, I was obligated to stick to my independent principles and not give in."

Though most hesder rabbis are urging soldiers to disobey orders, they also object to Defense Ministry intervention in how a yeshiva head runs his own yeshiva.

They therefore plan to hold a meeting to decide if they should all join Hezbollah.