A number of senior rabbis from the religious Zionist community, including the rabbi of Jerusalem, Rabbi Aryeh Stern, the president of Yeshivat Har Hamor, Rabbi Tzvi Yisrael Tau, the rabbi of Safed, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, city rabbis and yeshiva heads were invited to an emergency meeting with the Chief Rabbis of Israel.
The subject of the meeting that was convened urgently is the conclusions of the conversion committee headed by former Minister Moshe Nissim, which will be submitted to the government this afternoon.
According to the opponents of the proposal, the committee's conclusions prohibit conversion in Israel from the authority of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and for the first time give official recognition to the legislation of Reform conversions performed abroad.