The Minister of Religious Affairs, Matan Kahana, is among those in the government who do more than talk.
Already in the past, the tenure of the Minister of Religions in the Israeli governments has not been assigned to a prominent political figure.
More than once, the minister in charge of this field was the one who was not considered one who stood in his party in the front row of the leadership.
Sometimes it was a political reward, or an appendix to the more senior portfolio held by the minister.
This ministerial appointment was politically inferior.
inferior?
Like the status of the postal minister in the distant past.
The inferiority of the religion portfolio reflects the opinion of some members of the public on the status of the more than 20 religious ministers who have served so far.
This time a new tenant came to the minister's office, and he is a revolutionary.
no less.
Seeking to score a wall, compared to his predecessors in this bureau who were usually obedient, their stature swam in front of the Chief Rabbinate.
They failed in their attempts to change an archaic reality.
For example, the difficulties of women who needed a divorce certificate.
Or the ban on bringing non-kosher food for Passover into hospitals on holidays, and above all: no prime minister has sought to separate religion from the state.
Such an act would have taken religious parties out of the arena.
This, in essence, is the reality that he is trying to deal with and that Minister Kahana seeks to change.
And he did not flinch.
Two goals require change - one concerns the central authority of the Chief Rabbinate, which with great difficulty, if any, will show a willingness to part with any authority, however small.
She refuses to cooperate with the minister, who appears to her to be seeking to tattoo, and not to renew or repair.
Minister Kahana wants to install a new format for kosher observers.
Today began the process, which will completely change the kashrut arrangements, which will be completed by the end of another year.
These issues are at the door of the High Court. If the legislative procedures are not completed, the High Court will be able to approve the changes and decide in the direction of relief.
And it is not only the Chief Rabbinate that opposes these measures.
Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau is alternatively opposed to leading the conversion system.
Rabbi Chaim Druckman, who is influential, is aware of the new conversion process, and due to a process that has not yet been completed, did not give his consent.
At the end of the process, the rabbinate will recognize the Judaism of about half a million residents for marriage, for example.
Immigrants will be able to immigrate under the Law of Return and marry without rummaging through the family tree.
It seems that Minister Kahana is serving not to enjoy the pleasures of the government and the accompanying respect.
He has already fulfilled his role in the service of the state as a pilot, a colonel in the Air Force. As a citizen, he feels that there are two areas that he has suffered. But is this promise enough to advance legislation to approve his proposals in the areas of training and conversion? This is an unfinished and unfinished struggle.
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