Member of Knesset Elazar Stern (Yesh Atid) has responded to the investigation of the Conservative rabbi in Haifa following a complaint by the rabbinate that the rabbi was performing marriages of people who are ineligible to get married, saying, "This is how war out of desperation looks. That is what Judaism looks like in a crisis. This is how a rabbinate looks that does not understand for what the Temple was destroyed and for what we fast on Tisha B'Av."
Stern concluded, "It's a pity that the Israel Police serves as a tool in its hands."