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17 rabbis in first call to protest against government: "Danger to the Jewish state"
The senior rabbis signed an unusual call against the reforms in the areas of kashrut, conversion and the Western Wall after a secret meeting at Rabbi Druckman's home.
At the conference, they were presented with videos of MKs from the coalition and explanations of the bills.
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Yaki Adamkar
Wednesday, 01 December 2021, 18:55 Updated: 19:21
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In the video: Lieberman clarifies that he will seek to promote the outline of the Western Wall and conversion by city rabbis as early as next month (Photo: Knesset Channel, Editing: Amit Simcha)
Seventeen senior rabbis in religious Zionism signed an extraordinary letter in which they called for the public for the first time to come out and demonstrate against the reforms promoted by the government in the areas of kashrut, conversion and the Western Wall.
In the form of the letter that was first revealed in Walla!
The rabbis noted that "a series of laws endangers the essence of the state and changes its Jewish identity" and the public must "unite and protest against the attempt to make the state a state of all its citizens."
Among the signatories are Rabbi Chaim Druckman, one of the prominent leaders of the national-religious public and the Religious Zionist Party, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Rabbi of Safed, Rabbi Micha Halevi, Rabbi of Petah Tikva, Rabbi Elyakim Lebanon, Rabbi Dov Lior, Rabbi Chaim Steiner, Rabbi David Chai HaCohen and Rabbi Yehoshua Shapira.
They signed the letter after meeting last week at Rabbi Druckman's home and heard an extensive review of the government's steps in the areas of kashrut, conversion, the Western Wall layout and public transportation that will operate on Saturday in public spaces.
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First reading to demonstrate.
The letter with the names of the signatories (Photo: Walla !, no)
The secret conference presented the rabbis with sections on religion and state from the coalition agreements signed with the formation of the government, as well as videos and audio recordings from interviews of some of the coalition's Knesset members about their future intentions and explanations of other government bills in these areas.
After hearing the words, they signed a letter drafted by the rabbis.
"We returned to Eretz Israel because we want a Jewish state and not the state of all its citizens," it said.
"Now the government is promoting a series of laws that endanger the essence of the state and change its identity. The people of Israel are revolting against this attempt. We call on the public to unite and protest against the attempt to make the state a state of all its citizens."
"Unite and protest."
Druckman and Bennett (Photo: Reuven Castro)
This is the first call by the spiritual leadership of the national-religious public to protest against the Bennett-Lapid government, and it is published before a large right-wing demonstration that is expected to take place on Tuesday in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv. Protest ads published in recent days on social media by the "Red Line Protest" and the "National Struggle Headquarters" call on the public to participate in a protest in which "together we need a government that maintains a Jewish and democratic state independent of the enemy, cares for the state and builds the whole country."
The anger of the rabbis is mainly directed against the reforms recently promoted by the government in the field of kashrut and conversion.
For example, with the approval of the budget and the Knesset Arrangements Law, the kosher reform approved in the future will be approved, according to which the Chief Rabbinate will stop granting kosher food to business owners, and will become a regulator and will be replaced by private bodies.
In the field of conversion, the Minister of Religious Affairs, Matan Kahana, intends to soon promote a proposal that will allow local rabbis to convert and thus expropriate the rabbinate's exclusive authority in the field, with the aim of adding thousands of non-religious people to the Jewish people.
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