"Everything is dead. The ceremony is over," the coalition says when it comes to religious and state reforms, part of the highlight of the current government, amid the political upheaval.
"It's a matter of time until everything is buried, and there is no way to change that."
Minister of Religions Matan Kahana led a number of reforms in the last Knesset that were supposed to change the world of religion as we know it.
Among other things, he initiated the conversion reform, in which the possibility for the rabbis of the cities to establish conversion courts was to be opened up, and the kashrut reform, which abolishes the rabbinate's monopoly on kashrut, in favor of establishing private kashrut corporations.
Kahana also planned to change the electoral body of the chief rabbis, in order to appoint religious Zionist rabbis to the post, as part of the Chief Rabbinate elections in 2023.
The political drama that began with the resignation of MK Idit Silman from the coalition left government members very skeptical about the possibility of implementing the reforms. The verb.
The Kashruth Law was approved by the Knesset, but its second and central phase, which is the expropriation of kashrut from the rabbinate and the establishment of kosher corporations, is scheduled to begin this January.
It is difficult at the moment to see the government survive until January 2023, let alone the implementation of such a reform, which has in any case been severely criticized by a significant section of the religious public.
"Bennett sold everything, and along the way also sold his people."
MK Yaakov Asher, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
"In order to maintain a right-wing and left-wing component, the prime minister sacrificed the religious cause and thus strengthened the coalition. This is the trigger that formed the government and this is the trigger for the overthrow of the government," MK Yaakov Asher (Torah Judaism) told Israel Today. Edith Silman and other MKs are religious people and they understood that this government will historically be remembered as a government that will change the issue of religion and state massively. She said that with all due respect to Bennett, she was not going to sell her worldview. "
"Bennett sold everything, and along the way also sold his people. Fortunately, even though there were attempts at reform, they did not happen in the end. If they do happen, we will change them. Fortunately, at the moment they have not been able to harm the most sacred things, our soul bird. Dina Of this government to disband. "
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