"No Mansour Abbas will determine who a Jew is":
Opposition Knesset members attacked the conversion outline law approved today (Sunday) and revealed in "Israel Today".
According to the law, city rabbis will be able to establish a court and convert, in contrast to the existing situation where only the courts of the state conversion system can convert non-Jews.
Along with this law, the Ministerial Committee on Legislative Affairs also approved a bill by MK Moshe Tor-Paz - which was also first published in "Israel Today" - seeking to change the members of the assembly electing the chief rabbis massively to allow a majority for religious Zionism.
Minister of Religions, Matan Kahana // Photo: David Cohen - Ginny,
Communications Minister Yoaz Handel welcomed the decision: "The conversion reform that took place today in the Ministerial Committee for Legislation is important for the future of the State of Israel. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis live, serve in the army, marry and die here. The conversion option is a national task. There will be no one's monopoly, there is a unique opportunity here to correct.
"The reforms will do good and kindness to the Jewish character of Israel. The truth must be told - Ruth the Moabite, Onkelus, the Reds and the Hittites, all were not Jews today according to the State of Israel. History would change. Therefore the reform is important for hospitable Judaism. And to a widow. Who brings Jews closer and does not alienate them. "
"A dark policy that will harm the entire State of Israel"
On the other hand, members of the opposition attacked the clearance.
MK Itamar Ben Gvir said: "This is a Pike conversion that harms the state conversion and it is time for the ultra-Orthodox public to establish pedigree lists that will ultimately harm those who will not be a partner in these lists.
Minister Kahana divides the public, harms the Jewish tradition and, worse, leads to polarization and a rift in Israeli society.
This is not a reform that will advance us, but a dark policy that will harm the entire State of Israel. "
Chairman of Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni added: "Matan Kahana, with the help of his partners in this evil government, terrorizes Kerem Beit Yisrael, causes assimilation and harms the Jewish people with all his might. Matan Kahana, a graduate of national religious education, shames the place he comes from and questions who "We represent.
Moshe Gafni // Photo: Oren Ben Hakon //,
MK Uri Maklev: "This law comes to legitimize assimilation and give a kosher stamp to an empty process, there will be no pedigree in Israel but immigration will be a 'shelf product' which the conversion process itself will be only formal.
"Minister Kahana is destroying and destroying the entire Jewish nation in this outline - everyone knows what this law is about, it is enough to see those who support it in order to understand the problem and the goals of the Minister of Religions."
The Religious Zionist Party also noted that this is a law that "tears" the people: "The forceful move, made against the Chief Rabbinate and without the backing of rabbis ends in failure. "The Kahana leaders live. A government that relies on Israel's enemies and is based on those who have been fighting the state's Judaism for years has no legitimacy to enact such laws. Mansour Abbas will not determine who a Jew is. We call on the Israeli government to return from the dangerous reform to the future of the Jewish people."
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