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After a long hiatus, the Ministry of Religious Affairs begins appointing rabbis to localities, after a long hiatus following the sequence of Knesset election campaigns.
Last week Standard staff Rabbi Moshav Sde Ilan and Rabbi Simcha Zeev Mirvis, who served as rabbi of the community for the past year, will serve as rabbi of the moshav and will be budgeted by the Ministry of Religious Affairs. Rabbi Mirvis was ordained by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and holds fitness certificates for a neighborhood rabbi, a graduate of the Har Etzion Hesder Yeshiva in Alon Shvut and serves as a Torah editor at the Steinsaltz Center. In addition to his Torah education, Rabbi Mirvis holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Bar Ilan University and a master’s degree in business administration from Ben-Gurion University.
The appointment in Sde Ilan is the opening shot for the expected round of appointments in localities: Luzit, Beit Yosef, Shuva, Caesarea, Geva Carmel, Elishama, Nitzan, Shafir and Mivtachim.
Rabbi Simcha Marvis (Ministry of Religious Affairs)
“The appointment of rabbis in the settlement will stimulate religious life in the localities”
Rabbi Hezekiah Samin, head of the marriage and rabbinate division at the Ministry of Religious Affairs, noted: “The last distribution of standards to the settlement rabbis was about three years ago and since then, due to budget constraints, no standards have been staffed.
The Minister of Religious Affairs, Matan Kahana, said: “The rabbi has an important and central role in religious and community life. The appointments of settlement rabbis will shed young blood and motivate religious services in settlement. I believe the elected rabbis will work to connect residents to spiritual life Rabbi Simcha Zeev Mirvis on the occasion of his appointment as rabbi of Sde Ilan and wishes him the privilege of sanctifying the name of heaven. “
“We are pleased to announce to the public that we have recently begun a process that will allow the election of ten rabbis in the settlement. This is a holiday for settlement, after a three-year freeze on the appointment of rabbis in the settlement,” said Shimon (Moni) Matuk This was made possible thanks to the approval of the state budget, and the Ministry of Religious Affairs intends to approve dozens of other standards within the framework of “Kol Kora”.
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