Benzi Robin, Knitted News08.12.21 19:17 Wed.
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Is the new appointment of Minister of Religions Matan Kahana in the Sderot Religious Council illegal?
Following the publication in Srugim, MK Moshe Arbel (Shas) wrote a letter to Attorney General Mandelblit and State Comptroller Engelman demanding that he disqualify the appointment of Adv.
According to MK Arbel, there is concern about an illegal political affiliation prohibited by law: “Arbiv served as treasurer of the Jewish Home Party while Prime Minister MK Bennett headed it, and is expected to replace the current religious council’s signing license.”
Arbel claims: “Arbiv’s appointment is contrary to the directives of the director general of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, the guidelines for legal advice to the ministry and the customary practice for appointing superiors, and therefore clearly exceeds the reasonableness conferred on a minister when appointing a religious council.”
MK Moshe Arbel (Photo: Noam Ravkin Pentin / Flash 90)
The claim is that there is a political affiliation between Arbiv and Minister Matan Kahana and therefore the appointment is prohibited by law.
Arbel further states in his application that the appointment was made without the consultation and consent of the head of the local authority, as required by law.
Who is Kahana’s appointment in Sderot?
Yesterday we announced in Srugim that the Minister of Religious Affairs, Matan Kahana, has appointed Adv. Ben Zion Arbiv as the head of the Religious Council in Sderot, as part of his effort to move Shas from the centers of power in religious services and put knitwear there.
For more than a decade, the city’s religious services were controlled by Shas. In 2017, the police recommended that the head of the religious council, Oren Malka, be prosecuted for illegally receiving large sums of money.
Matan Kahana in the Plenum, Archive (Photo: Knesset Channel)
With the entry of Minister Matan Kahana into the position of Minister of Religious Affairs, he began working to appoint the vehicles alongside the preparation of a team of superiors. In cities where it is not possible to drive the vehicle from which the Minister of Religious Affairs is appointed on his behalf.
Arbiv, 55, is a resident of Petah Tikva who is close to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during the time Bennett served as chairman of the Jewish House Arbiv served as the party’s treasurer. Arbiv has an academic education in law, economics and political science. Arbiv also held a number of senior management positions.
Arbiv’s appointment is the opening shot in preparation for the appointment of a city rabbi of religious Zionism. In the absence of a rabbi for the city, the mayor of Kiryat Gat, Rabbi Moshe Hablin, has been appointed acting mayor.
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