Hgr"o zt"l in the past: only one Chief Rabbi

While Naftali Bennett and Tzipi Livni cook the law of one chief rabbi, which has passed the first reading, Rabbis Rabbi David Lau and Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef explain that it is a useless legislation that violates tradition.

"I think it's high time to choose one main rabbi and now two. One law and one for all of us and there is no need for Chief Rabbinate pairs," said Rabbi Ovadia Yosef zt"l in 1977 to the Observatory newspaper. "Choosing two chief rabbis causes many difficulties in fulfilling the tasks. Things are known. Maximum should be chosen in most heads of vice; special situations will fill the place of the Chief Rabbi or is replaced. In normal times there should be one single head and exclusive role. We should aim to cancel the marriage Rabbinate because each one is a world unto itself, each pulling at his side, and the situation is as a metaphor as Sages say: clay - camel. "

Similar statements were also made by former Rishon Lezion Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi Doron, and they quoted the State Comptroller's report in 2001 about one town rabbi: "In his reply to the State Comptroller in December 2000 to mark the message first Chief Rabbi Bakshi Doron, that during the meeting of the Council of the Chief First, it was in May 1998, was common among most participants view that minimize duplication of municipal rabbis, and appoint a second city rabbi but only with the consent of the Chief Rabbinate.

"Rabbis national convention, held in August 1998, the presence of President said first marking that" existing law of choosing municipal rabbis, based on the division between the two communities is not necessary and is not becoming to the country. We won and air exiles of Israel are a fact. As in time to repeal the law before we have to rule on the legal issues who is Sephardic and who is Ashkenazi. "

Rishon Lezion added that "the meeting discussed the Chief among the chief rabbis and heads of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, had already agreed in principle, not to apply the law of choosing two rabbis without prior discussion in advance, but unfortunately such is life and new controllers declares minister of religion on choosing rabbis according to current practice.

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