Struggle over national-religious candidacy for chief rabbi
LAST UPDATED: 02/26/2013 20:05
With the terms of the two serving chief rabbis, Yona Metzger and Shlomo
Amar rapidly drawing to a close, the competition within the
national-religious community to be acknowledged as the sector’s
consensus candidate is becoming increasingly fraught.
The
election will be conducted by a 150-member panel in a secret ballot in
June, and many in the national-religious world are eager that a rabbi
from their community be appointed to at least one of the chief rabbi
positions, having been frozen out of the chief rabbinate during the last
ten-year term.
Despite this, there is currently no consensus candidate from within the national religious community.