Before two hours had passed since the inauguration of the government, the incoming Minister of Religious Services Michael Malchiali, this evening (Thursday) signed an order delaying the introduction of the kashrut reform of the previous Minister of Religious Services, Matan Kahana, by six months. The kashrut reform was enacted under the opposition of the Chief Rabbis of Israel and the Council of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel
After his swearing in as the Minister of Religious Services, Malchieli arrived at the office of the Chief Rabbi of Israel and President of the Chief Rabbinate Council, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, together with Yehuda Avidan, the candidate for Director General of the Ministry of Religious Services, and signed the order. We will recall that in the coalition agreements signed by the incoming government, it was agreed to cancel it of the reform in full, and the enactment of a kosher law to abolish the Mashichih-Moshiach relationship in coordination with the Chief Rabbinate of Israel.
Minister Michael Malchiali Photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90
“The majority of the country does not want to eat doubts or carrion and carnage”
The first of Zion said after the signing to Melchiali, that it is necessary to “maintain the observance of Judaism and tradition in the Land of Israel, we are a Jewish state and we need to speed up all the things that need correction, speed up and fix it. First and foremost, we have been struggling for the last year and a half, regarding conversion and regarding kashrut in the serious breaches of kashrut As soon as you enter the position, you need to take care of this and stop this matter of kosher, that every city rabbi can give kosher and choose the proper supervisors and not everyone can serve as a kosher supervisor. Everyone can eat the best, most of the country keeps kosher and want to eat kosher and don’t want to eat doubts or carrion and carrion, peace be upon you, so take care of it first and foremost.”
Rabbi Yosef added that the issue of appointing city rabbis should be addressed: “How can you leave a city without a city rabbi, for years and years there are cities without city rabbis, strengthen this matter and work to appoint city rabbis.”
“It didn’t result in kosher but on the contrary kashrut”
Malchiali said this evening: “In the last year and a half, it was difficult to see the reform that the government promoted, and as a conservative said, in the end it did not result in kosher but, on the contrary, kosher. There is a part that has already entered 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 Shabatz will not be able to give kosher and other things.”