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A government ministerial committee will discuss Sunday a proposal to prevent the Rabbinate from canceling conversions. The law proposed by MK Shlomo Mula (Kadima) says that the ease with which rabbinical courts can dispute conversions "causes thousands of families to live their lives in fear that their and their children's Jewishness will be challenged because they are not observant enough."

Mula said that the current situation prevents the state from effectively absorbing new immigrants "who wish to share the fate of the Jewish people, but are not considered halachically Jewish. Therefore, I believe the right to dispute conversions should be removed from the Rabbinate."