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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 338

Chief Rabbinate of Israel

Illustrative - An Orthodox Jewish wedding. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)
August 18, 2024, 2:43 pm
Half of Israeli Jews would prefer to marry in non-Orthodox wedding ceremonies — poll
Two-thirds of public backs lifting Chief Rabbinate’s monopoly on Jewish weddings to include Reform, Conservative, civil ceremonies; only ultra-Orthodox, far-right voters oppose
By ToI Staff
Israel's Ashkenazi former chief rabbi David Lau, right, and Israel's Sephardi former chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attend an event at a ceremony in Jerusalem, June 30, 2023. (The Chief Rabbinate of Israel)
July 5, 2024, 9:17 pm
A fight over women’s representation leaves Israel’s Jews without chief rabbis
The Justice Ministry’s demand that the rabbinate consider women for a position traditionally reserved for rabbis is key to the delay in succession for the first time in over a century
By Canaan Lidor
Israel's Ashkenazi former chief rabbi David Lau, right, and Israel's Sephardi former chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attend an event at a ceremony in Jerusalem, June 30, 2023. (The Chief Rabbinate of Israel)
July 5, 2024, 4:34 am
Israel’s chief rabbis leave their posts with no successors lined up to replace them
Interim rabbis to fulfill duties after Religious Affairs Ministry fails to set date for elections to replace outgoing rabbis, Ashkenazi David Lau and Sephardi Yitzhak Yosef
By Ben Sales
Likud MKs Tally Gotliv, left, and Moshe Saada attend a Constitution, Law and Justice Committee meeting in the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 18, 2024; they both expressed opposition to the so-called "Rabbis Bill." (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 18, 2024, 10:28 pm
PM boots rebel MKs from committee, insists on urgent vote on jobs-for-rabbis law
Otzma Yehudit accuses Shas of making ‘political deal’ with Arabs to pass controversial bill; ultra-Orthodox party slams ‘lies’ and ‘blackmail,’ demands coalition partner’s support
By Sam Sokol
The Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee discusses a bill to expand the number of municipal rabbis across the country, June 18, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 18, 2024, 2:02 pm
Knesset panel pushes off vote on contentious bill expanding Chief Rabbinate’s influence
Likud MKs object to promoting law during wartime; with municipalities expected to shoulder part of the cost, mayors express outrage, demand funds go to help residents during war
By Sam Sokol
MK Eli Dallal leads a joint meeting of the Special Committee for the Rights of the Child and the Special Committee for Combating Drug and Alcohol Abuse at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 17, 2024, 3:21 pm
Likud MKs slam revival of bill expanding Chief Rabbinate’s influence
MK charges Religious Zionism party reintroduced bill ‘like thieves in the night’; it would create hundreds of publicly funded jobs for Orthodox rabbis, erode women’s role
By Sam Sokol
Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest against the drafting of Haredim to the IDF, June 2, 2024 (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 17, 2024, 1:58 pm
Daily Briefing June 17: Day 255 – Will Knesset keep reservists longer but exempt Haredim?
Political correspondent Sam Sokol discusses a couple of bills coming up for a vote, as reporter Sue Surkes explains a pilot program for refugee kids and a Nubian ibex rescue
By ToI Staff
The Chief Rabbis of Israel, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef (L) and Rabbi David Lau (R) speaks during an event, on January 11, 2016. (Yaakov Coehn/Flash90)
June 16, 2024, 9:38 pm
Knesset revives bill expanding Chief Rabbinate’s influence over local authorities
Previously torpedoed by Benny Gantz, legislation could cost taxpayers tens of millions of shekels annually in salaries for hundreds of new neighborhood rabbis
By Sam Sokol
Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau speaks during a rally calling for the release of Israelis held kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in Gaza at 'Hostages Square' in Tel Aviv, April 18, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
May 26, 2024, 11:47 pm
Citing nepotism concerns, High Court of Justice halts rabbinical courts appointments
Petition filed by attorney notes that Chief Rabbi David Lau is a member of the committee considering the promotion of two of his relatives
By Canaan Lidor
Illustrative: A man stands outside the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 23, 2024, 12:53 pm
Rabbinical court imposes million-shekel divorce payment on husband, citing ketubah
Justices treat the traditional Jewish marriage document, typically viewed as symbolic, as a legally binding contract
By ToI Staff
Shas party member Michael Malkieli at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 20, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 17, 2024, 7:35 pm
New regulations would expand Haredi control over municipal rabbis, sideline women
After Knesset bill nixed, Religious Services Ministry pushes similar changes that critics say would ’emasculate local authorities and completely centralize role of municipal rabbi’
By Sam Sokol
Likud MK Ofir Katz votes in a committee meeting in the Knesset, March 21, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 19, 2024, 3:01 pm
After protests, coalition refreezes bill hiking number of municipal rabbis
Likud members join National Unity and New Hope lawmakers in opposing legislation that would have given Chief Rabbinate control of cushy appointments and removed guardrails
By Canaan Lidor
Shas leader Aryeh Deri, left, walks by Ze'ev Elkin, right, in the Knesset plenum on December 25, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
March 19, 2024, 3:01 am
Bill swelling ranks of city rabbis resurfaces, testing wartime coalition
National Unity and New Hope object to bid to advance legislation boosting Chief Rabbinate and creating hundreds of new taxpayer funded posts, saying it violates power-sharing deal
By Canaan Lidor
An anti-government rally outside the Knesset in Jerusalem on January 15, 2024 (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)
January 19, 2024, 1:00 pm
Daily Briefing Jan. 19: Day 105 – Court allows Haifa anti-war rally; Karhi goes postal
Legal reporter Jeremy Sharon discusses anti-war rally in Haifa, Postal Authority issue as religion reporter Canaan Lidor looks at women in rabbinate council, and a post-Oct. 7 rave
By ToI Staff
Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau, left, attends a Chief Rabbinate Council meeting with his Sephardic counterpart Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef and David Lau's father and predecessor Meir Lau, in Jerusalem on December 24, 2023. (Courtesy of the Chief Rabbinate)
January 14, 2024, 11:37 pm
High Court rules women can fill ‘rabbi’ slots in Chief Rabbinate’s top bodies
Decision stops short of imposing female representation, but angers critics who accuse the justices of ‘aggressive’ overreach
By Canaan Lidor
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