Supreme Court justices sided with the rabbinate against Attorney

Hard day to the Attorney General in the Supreme Court: a rare decision the Supreme Court ruled that the Attorney General was wrong when he decided not to inform the judges on the dispute between him and the Chief Rabbinate, the Supreme Court regarding the issue of kashrus.

"The entire conduct in this matter is unacceptable to us, because there was place at the initiative of the State to report to us on a matter of the dispute with the Chief Rabbinate, even though the attorney believes that the issue is enforcement empowered," stated the panel headed by Justice Elyakim Rubinstein.

The discussion began when a representative of the Attorney, Attorney Neta Oren, presented the position of Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein that does not enforce the law prohibiting fraud in kashrus, when restaurants do not use the word "kosher" and clarify that the certificate is not from the Rabbinate. Mr. Oren noted Attorney General's decision was made after a meeting with the chief rabbis, but Judge Solberg interrupted, noting that "hearsay" has learned that the position of Chief Judges is different from the position of Attorney General, and the Chief Rabbi's letter to the Attorney General demanded that the rabbi rabbinate can represent herself.

Mr. Oren replied that the Attorney General has decided not to allow the rabbinate independent representation, based in decisions of Shamgar Commission, which examined the status of the attorney general in 2000. According to Attorney Oren, the report states that permission will be given an external representation only in "exceptional and extraordinary" cases.

In response Judge Solberg pulled out a copy of the report in his possession, and quoted from the opposite conclusion: The report states that in the event of a dispute with the Attorney General, will be deprived of the right to representation external government body only in cases of "illegality is obvious."

At the end of the hearing, the Court decided later that the petition will be discussed again, and this time - contrary to the position of Attorney General, the Chief Rabbinate will be represented by its legal adviser, who will reply to the petition and present the legal position of the Chief without subordination interpretation of the Attorney General.

On the eve of the court hearing stretched governability and democracy movement criticized the position of adviser and said that he was not empowered to determine what will be government policy. Mr. Rothman said that "one wonders why government policies on religion and kashrus are determined by those who do not understand the field and in charge of the area by law ".

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