Chairman of the National Union party, Minister Uri Ariel, spoke at the Knesset plenum and addressed criticism of the Chief Rabbinate Wednesday afternoon.
"Among the Knesset members there are those who want to slander the Chief Rabbinate," Ariel said. There is one Knesset, there is one Supreme Court, and there is one Chief Rabbinate. There will not be two rabbinates here, neither Reform nor any other rabbinate."