The first decision of the new government? Immediately after his swearing in as the Minister of Religious Services, the incoming Minister MK Michael Malchiali arrived at the office of the Chief Rabbi and President of the Chief Rabbinate Council Hagari Yosef, together with Yehuda Avidan, the candidate for the Director General of the Ministry of Religious Services – and signed an order to postpone the entry of The kosher reform of former minister Matan Kahana – in six months.
The reform was expected to take effect in two days.
In the coalition agreements signed by the incoming government, it was agreed on the full repeal of the reform and the enactment of a kosher law to abolish Mishgih relationships in coordination with the Chief Rabbinate.
The kosher reform was enacted under the opposition of the chief rabbis and the chief rabbinical council, who warned of many failures in the reform and damage to kosher.
Hagari Yosef said: “I want to bless the new Minister of Religions, the important rabbi 18 Rabbi Malchiali, to bless him that he will have a heavenly helper and that he will be successful in his position. We need to preserve Judaism and tradition in the Land of Israel, we are a Jewish country and we need to speed up all the things that need fixing, speed up and fix it.
“First and foremost, we have been struggling for the past year and a half regarding conversion and regarding kashrut in the serious aspects of kashrut. As soon as you enter the position, you need to take care of it and stop this matter of kashrut, that every rabbi of a city can give kashrut and choose the proper supervisors, and not everyone can serve as a supervisor of Kosher, and rather sit down and set up the committee and improve the issue of a supervised supervisor, so that there is kosher that everyone can eat at its best.
“The majority of the country keep kosher and want to eat kosher and do not want to eat doubts or carrion and carrion, peace be upon you, so take care of that first and foremost. In addition, the issue of appointing city rabbis needs to be addressed, how can a city be left without a city rabbi, for years and years there are cities without city rabbis, strengthen this matter and work to appoint city rabbis.”
Minister of Religious Services MK Michael Malchiali: “As we saw and as a conservative spoke, it was difficult to see in the last year and a half the reform that the government promoted and as a conservative said, in the end it did not lead to kashrut but the opposite of kashrut.” There is a part that has already entered into the law and we will have to cancel this part, and there is a part that should come into effect in a few days, such as the Federal Court of Justice will not be able to give kosher and other things, so we are coming now to receive the rabbi’s blessing and sign the signature of the new government, so that the things These will not be put into practice, they will be postponed and like a conservative assumption we will cancel the existing law and in the name of God we will do it and succeed.”