The ultra-Orthodox Shas party will be back in the governing coalition in the near future, Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef said in a recording obtained by Army Radio and broadcast on Wednesday. "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will soon fulfill his intention to return Shas to the coalition, due to his enemies [within the coalition]," Yosef is reported to have said. "Even Netanyahu is saying there won't be much time with [Yesh Atid leader Yair] Lapid and [Habayit Hayehudi leader Naftali] Bennett. He is suffering from them. He knows that he will suffer from them." The Prime Minister's Office denied that Netanyahu said this. Lapid's Yesh Atid party chose not to respond to Yosef's comments. Ever since being left out of the governing coalition, ultra-Orthodox political leaders like Yosef have leveled invective against both Lapid and Bennett, whom they see as responsible for leaving them out of the government. In the Army Radio recording, Yosef called Lapid "Asmodai," a legendary demonic character in rabbinic literature. Asmodeus, as the name is also spelled, is also referred to as one of the seven princes of hell. Yosef's son Rabbi Yaakov Yosef died last week and Netanyahu paid a condolence visit to the Yosef home on Tuesday night. Speaking with Netanyahu, Yosef said, "I'm in mourning now as a father who buried his son, but my greatest sorrow is my sorrow over the enlistment of yeshiva students." According to Army Radio, Yosef said that his sorrow over the "fate of the world of Torah" was greater than the sorrow he felt over the death of his son. Netanyahu was warmly received by Yosef. He spoke with Yosef about how his father Benzion Netanyahu had coped with the death of Yoni Netanyahu, the prime minister's older brother who died in the Entebbe operation in 1976.