4 months after the Civil Service Commissioner proposed to Minister Kahana to consider the removal of Rishon LeZion Hagar Yosef from office, after he said he was politically opposed to the kosher reform led by the minister, the latter made a decision not to dismiss, but presents his version of how the rabbi should act as a public representative | First publication
The storm of the Civil Service Commissioner, Uri Shoham, who began a few months ago demanding that the Minister of Religious Affairs allow Kahana to reprimand Rishon Lezion Hagar Yosef following alleged political statements, after attacking Minister Kahana’s kosher reform, which he claims is detrimental to the Jewish world, comes to an end Proposed to remove Rabbi Yosef from office.
Behadrei Haredim learned that yesterday (Thursday) Minister Kahana made a final decision on the matter and informed the Civil Service Commissioner that he backs the Chief of Staff, and thus wrote to him in a letter published for the first time in Behadrei Haredim, “After seriously reviewing the material before me, The variability and attitude of the Honorable Chief Rabbi, Rishon LeZion Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef to the statements. And having considered the fact that these are difficult statements, which the ear is not comfortable hearing, I believe that despite the sorrow that such statements have been made, the Chief Rabbi of Israel, by virtue of his position as a senior and significant Torah authority, deserves very broad limits of freedom of expression. “Kahana wrote in the decision.
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However, Minister Kahana preaches morality to Rishon Lezion and writes that “the Chief Rabbi of Israel is expected to have only reverence for heaven and not reverence for flesh and blood. I believe that it was appropriate to give the chief rabbis immunity similar to the immunity that other elected officials have, since the importance of the chief rabbi expressing his opinion and position on a variety of issues, without fear, is more significant and even outweighs the importance of a Knesset member or any other elected official freely. “
“It is important to emphasize,” notes Kahana, “some of the Rishon LeZion statements made in the statement of claim are directed at me personally. Therefore, I believe that there is no justification for prosecuting him disciplinary or, God forbid, denying him the right to serve as a judge of the Chief Rabbi of Rishon Lezion, Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef Shlita.