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Gafni Protests Interference in Appointment of Dayanim

by Betzalel Kahn

MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni attacked women's organizations for interfering with the appointing of dayanim to the Rabbinate botei din.

Rabbi Gafni issued his remarks following a campaign by a group of secular and national-religious women against the appointment of notable talmidei chachomim as dayanim in Rabbinate botei din. The group reached the height of its involvement when it opposed the appointment of dayanim during a meeting of the Committee for the Appointment of Dayanim.

"Recently a coalition of women's organizations, as they are referred to, decided to wage war and battle against the selection of chareidi dayanim," Rabbi Gafni told the Knesset. "Just because a person is chareidi he is not fit to be a dayan. Their representative sat . . . in the Constitutional Committee and battled against a proposal by Yitzchak Levy or at least challenged a law intended to assist agunos. This supposed representative of the women's organization—who does she represent?

"They waged war against the election of a dayan to the Beis Hadin Hagodol who was eventually selected and he turned out to be an excellent dayan. One of the best, and they did not step forward to apologize," said Rabbi Gafni.

 

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