"Closing eyes causes assimilation": Minister Kahana reveals the conversion law
The Minister of Religious Affairs submitted the memorandum of law that provokes strong opposition in the ultra-Orthodox world and is intended to allow city rabbis to convert, contrary to the position of the Chief Rabbinical Council of Israel.
"A historic opportunity to make a move to strengthen the State of Israel as a Jewish state - one that will not return"
Yaki Adamkar
12/01/2022
Wednesday, 12 January 2022, 16:05 Updated: 16:20
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In the video: Minister Matan Kahana calls on the Chief Rabbinate to cooperate with the enactment of the Conversion Law (Walla system!)
Government Conversion Law Launches: Minister of Religious Affairs Matan Kahana today (Wednesday) submitted a memorandum of the Government Conversion Law designed to allow city rabbis to convert, contrary to the position of the Chief Rabbinical Council of Israel.
Although Rabbi Chaim Druckman, one of the senior rabbis in religious Zionism, announced that he would not be able to express support for the law because of rabbinical opposition, Kahana claimed that the memorandum of law was written in consultation with other senior rabbis.
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"The law will lead to a significant increase in the number of people seeking to convert," Matan Kahana (Photo: Knesset Spokeswoman Noam Moskowitz)
The main points of the law, which provokes strong opposition in the ultra-Orthodox world, stipulate that city rabbis will be able to establish conversion tribunals within the state conversion system under rules of procedure, supervision, control and uniform certificates for all. As part of this, a "Rabbinical Cities" district will be established in the State Conversion Division, which will provide administrative services to the rabbis of the cities. The person who will determine the uniform rules for conversion is a new rabbinical committee, but the chief rabbi, the steering committee and the chief rabbinical council will have the authority to cancel the appointment of a conversion judge in a controlled manner in the event of a violation of the rules.
Kahana said today that "in the State of Israel there are almost half a million citizens whose father or grandfather was Jewish but according to Halacha are not Jews. They are part of us. Torah scholars of all generations have made great efforts to 'bring them home'. Of the State of Israel and causes assimilation.Memory of the law I submitted today,And further steps we will take in the coming years will lead to a significant increase in the number of people seeking to convert every year. "
City rabbis will be able to establish conversion tribunals, Chief Rabbinate of Jerusalem (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)
In a press briefing, Kahana addressed the Chief Rabbinate's controversy and opposition to the move and called on it to "be a partner in this historic move and continue dialogue and discussion on the law so that we can pass a conversion law that will address the conversion challenge of Israel and take care of its future as a Jewish state." One that will not return. "
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