Concerns among the religious public regarding the kashrut reform:
Rabbis and those involved in the kashrut issue are angry at the final wording of the reform, published in Israel Today on Friday - claiming that "Minister of Religions Matan Kahana is taking hostile takeover of the chief rabbinate."
They point to a number of serious problems, which they claim are not being addressed in the reform, even though these problems, they say, could collapse the entire training system and make it unreliable.
During the deliberations of the Religious Services Committee, prior to the approval of the reform, it was first revealed that the National Commissioner for Kashrut Supervision - who will be authorized by law, will not be subordinate to the Chief Rabbinate Council or the Chief Rabbis.
During the discussion, which lasted 13 hours, the director general of the Ministry of Religions, Shimon Matuk, noted that the person in charge of kashrut would be subordinate only to the director general of the rabbinate, and not to the chief rabbis.
The one who was furious about this was Rabbi Elchanan Ben-Nun, the rabbi of Shiloh, who has headed the kashrut system in the Binyamin Regional Council for the past 15 years.
"The analysis of situations in the field is not dictated only by logic and human morality, there are halakhic rules. Even if the commissioner knew Shulchan Aruch, those who are not rabbis will not judge correctly. To say about such a thing "with the approval of the rabbinate" is a real public deception. "
Sources in the field claimed that "if the supervision of kashrut is not under the control of the rabbinate, there will be those who will not rely on kashrut as a result."
Another issue that frustrates the religious councils is the refusal on the part of Knesset members and coalition ministers to allow priority for kosher status on the part of rabbinates.
Under the amended wording of the reform, religious councils will also be allowed to provide kosher services, if they can demonstrate that they are able to provide these services in extensive areas and not just in the city where they operate.
However, representatives of traditional parents appealed to the chair of the Religious Services Committee, Yulia Melanovsky, to include in the law that by default public and educational institutions will serve food according to the rabbinate standard or higher, unless the parents agree otherwise, and she refused.
"This is a captive audience, whose right to receive kosher is of a suitable standard," said one of the sources involved in the field.
At the same time, it should be noted that the decision to prioritize rabbinical kosher is in fact an undermining of the opening of the market to competition, so it is clear why the Minister of Religions opposes this.
In an article published in "Israel Today" on Friday, it was announced that in about a year and two months, the private kosher bodies will begin providing kosher services.
This means that if the religious councils and rabbinates continue to oppose, in practice in a year they will no longer be able to provide kosher services.
"Although most of the building and quorum of Israeli rabbis, including religious Zionism, state that the reform is bad, not only in relation to an ideal situation, but also in relation to the current situation - if the rabbinate refuses to cooperate with it - all rabbis in Israel will be denied authority." Against the reform pessimistic forecast.