Chief rabbinate of israel

Tzohar returns to High Court, seeks order compelling Rabbinate to license it as kosher certifier

The new petition argues that, even after a ruling in November ordering the Rabbinate to decide whether Tzohar qualifies and, if so, to issue a license, the state still has not acted. 

A Tzohar kashrut sticker in a window
 Restored mikveh in White Stork Synagogue, Wroclaw, Poland.

Ministry publishes list of mikvaot with shelters nearly two weeks into war, following ITIM appeal

Passengers seen at the Ben-Gurion Airport train station, August 17, 2025

Israel’s chief rabbis protest planned Shabbat public transportation

Ultra-orthodox Jewish men talk on the phone in front of the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on December 4, 2025.

Should control of the Western Wall be delegated to one sect of Judaism over another? - editorial


High Court conversion ruling helps bridge Israel-Diaspora rift

Now is the time to free Israel from the choke hold of the Chief Rabbinate.

High Court of Justice May 3, 2020

High Court conversion ruling helps bridge Israel-Diaspora rift

Now is the time to free Israel from the choke hold of the Chief Rabbinate.

High Court of Justice May 3, 2020

High Court denies Chief Rabbinate request for panel on hametz in hospitals

The court decided on Sunday not to hold a new hearing on whether hospitals can ban patients and visitors from bringing in hametz on Passover, upholding its 2020 ruling.

‘EVEN DURING the dark days of the Holocaust, we find accounts of brave Jews who went to incredible lengths to obtain matzah.’

Herzog College: Leading the renaissance at Hechal Shlomo

TODAY, HERZOG has embarked on an ambitious restoration of Hechal Shlomo in an effort to restore it to its former glory.

Hechal Shlomo, the former headquarters of the chief rabbis of Israel, is now the home of Herzog College’s Jerusalem campus and its International Center of Jewish Heritage

Chief Rabbi Lau to Diaspora rabbis: You must vaccinate, dangerous not to

The special campaign for Israel-Diaspora relations led by Lau will continue into the next week.

Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau in a meeting with rabbis from the diaspora.

Israel’s kashrut supervision policy needs to change - opinion

While several years have passed since earlier reports, recent revelations make it clear that nothing has really changed.

REPRESENTATIVES OF the Chief Rabbinate carry kosher certificates across Jaffa Road in Jerusalem in 2019.

Life in limbo for thousands of couples unable to marry during COVID-19

Creative solutions for civil marriage during the current crisis such as weddings in foreign embassies and on boats in international waters have been proposed to alleviate the crisis

An illustrative photo of a Jewish wedding in front of the Mediterranean Sea.

High Court demands Rabbinate explain Jewish-status investigations

The Chief Rabbinate has initiated investigations into maternal relatives of citizens without them ever having approached it or the rabbinical courts.

Are you jewish enough for the rabbinate

Is this the end of the Chief Rabbinate in Israel?

They have no place in Judaism at all, certainly in the 21st century.

Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi David Lau.

Get refuser grants divorce after being arrested at coronavirus checkpoint

"The get has become a halachically endorsed tool that can be abused to extort, control and threaten a spouse," said Director of Yad La'isha.

An Israeli police officer and an Israeli soldier at a temporary "checkpoint" in Jerusalem, to check people are not disobeying the governments orders on a partial lockdown, in order to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus on March 31, 2020.