Director-general Uri Keidar of the Free Israel Movement has responded to the investigation of a Conservative rabbi in Haifa for holding weddings outside the rabbinate framework by saying, "The day after the Knesset passes a law against the LGBT community, police arrive at 5:30 AM and drag a Conservative rabbi who has held weddings outside the rabbinate out of his house."
Keidar continued, "There is no other option but the immediate legislation of a civil-marriage law. At the beginning of the next Knesset session, a bill for civil marriage will be presented to the Knesset, and we will see who supports the Israelis and who supports the rabbinate."