The conversion plan of the Minister of Religions, Matan Kahana, which was first revealed in "Israel Today" is already causing a stir.
Among the ultra-Orthodox public, there is strong opposition to the move, which centers on the possibility for city rabbis to establish conversion courts, and there is strong criticism of the reform.
MK Uri Maklev of Torah Judaism attacked the reform published this morning and said: "Minister Kahana is giving a gift to the Gentiles on Eidem Day.
As we feared, the Minister of Religions turns the process of acceptance into the chosen, rooted and historical people for registration for a country club.
They are quickly leading us to set up a set of community reference books. "
MK Yaakov Margi of Shas claimed that Minister Kahana's reform would harm the Jewish people and said in an interview with Kol Barama that "they put aside all disputes except religious matters. They learn nothing from what happened to the reform movement in the elimination of a large part of the Jewish people through assimilation Massively, since the terrible Holocaust we have not grown numerically.
We lost in assimilation no less than we lost in the Holocaust. "
MK Yoav Ben-Zur of Shas also attacked the outline of conversion and said: "There was no destruction and devastation to the institution of the Chief Rabbinate and Jewish tradition as the minister leads to the destruction of religion Matan Kahana. The conversion system is the soul of the Jewish people. "We'll have to set up an array of private genealogies."
MK Rabbi Gilad Karib of Labor, chairman of the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, referred to the reform promoted by the Minister of Religions and said: "Thanks to the rulings of the High Court, there is no monopoly in the field of conversion in Israel.
The condition for any further government legislation in this area is that it does not harm the recognized status of non-Orthodox converts.
The proposed outline deals with the conversion procedures that take place within the framework of the Orthodox rabbinical establishment only.
"In view of the Chief Rabbinate's strict policy on this issue in recent decades, it is doubtful whether its continued control over the conversion courts will allow for a real breakthrough."
Advocate Orly Erez Lechovsky, director of the Reform Center for Religion and State, said that "the reform movement offers tolerant and inclusive conversion, in the framework of which hundreds of men and women are converted every year.
"These conversions are recognized for the purpose of the Law of Return and registration in the Population Registry and we will insist that the recognition of these conversions will not be harmed within the framework of the new conversion legislation."
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