The committee for the appointment of Dayani convened today (Monday), through the Zoom network, for the first time since the new government was formed and the Minister of Religious Affairs, Matan Kahana, was appointed to head the committee.
The committee convened at the request of the president of the tribunal, Chief Rabbi Gaon Rabbi David Lau, to discuss extending the tenure of two fellow judges. At the end of the hearing, the extension of their term was unanimously approved.
But what stood out especially at the conference was the absence of Rishon LeZion and the Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef. Kikar Hashabat has learned that this is a deliberate absence as a protest against the conduct of the committee’s chairman, Minister Matan Kahana, and the reforms in religion and state that the minister is promoting.
Last week, it was revealed for the first time in Kikar Hashabbat that the Chief of Staff decided to boycott the committee’s deliberations. A senior official in the Chief Rabbinate explained the unusual move and told Kikar Hashabbat: “Hundreds of thousands of gentile Russian immigrants alongside the desire to give the Western Wall to the Reformers, there is no reason to have any dialogue with him.”
The senior rabbi continued to explain Rishon Lezion’s decision to boycott the deliberations of the committee for the appointment of judges: “Minister Kahana wants a priest and a divorcee and bastards to marry at the Cyprus embassy in Israel. .
“Kahana wants to appoint judges to the regional court and the great court, from which the opinion of the great men of Israel is not comfortable. Rabbi Yosef said that it is better for you not to appoint judges at all than to appoint them.”
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“For all the above reasons,” concludes the senior rabbinate: “Rishon LeZion has decided to boycott the committee’s deliberations, unless Kahana repents and stops hating ultra-Orthodox, which has no chance.”
Rishon LeZion v. Kahana: “What Destruction Will It Bring”
Last week, in his weekly lesson, Rishon LeZion attacked Minister Kahana and said: “This loophole that anyone can give kosher – this is what the Minister of Religions does to please David Stav, the conservative said he has no reverence for him.
“Note, Maran never spoke of a rabbi in such harsh words, Maran once spoke of some rabbi, said of him that he was evil? Said of him that he has no reverence? That he is dangerous to Judaism? Never. The rabbi respected, but here no. The rabbi. Take off your gloves. “
“Who knows what destruction this will bring,” warned Rishon Lezion: The public: not to trust all kinds of kosher people that it is a great destruction what they want to do. “