Chief Sephardi Rabbi ShlomoAmar on Tuesday warned Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that if thelatter did not prevent “the passing of the bill to disconnect theconversions conducted in the military from the Chief Rabbinate,” hewould consider himself no longer responsibility for any matterspertaining to conversions.
Amar, who in his capacity ofhead of the rabbinic courts is charged with supreme authority overconversions, wrote to Netanyahu that he has learned the premier isfirm in his intention to approve the bill penned by Israel BeiteinuMks David Rotem and Robert Ilatov, which passed the ministerialcommittee for legislation on Sunday.
The chief rabbi remindedNetanyahu of the conversation they had over the weekend and theletter from Sunday, in which he expressed his objection to the bill,which came into being after Amar formed a committee to advice him onaccepting the validity of the military conversions by issuing hissignature to the final certificates, a duty that had been disregardedin the past years.