Meretz is calling to abolish the Chief Rabbinate, and to grant citizenship not just to Jews but to anyone who "can prove his bonds with the Jewish People and Israel."
Labor's platform fails to acknowledge eternal Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem, calls for the elimination of the Ministry of Religions, and calls for the recognition of Reform conversions and civil marriages performed in Israel. Shas says this platform renders Labor a copy of the anti-religious Shinui party in that it would erase all Israel's vestiges of a Jewish state.
Labor's platform fails to acknowledge eternal Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem, calls for the elimination of the Ministry of Religions, and calls for the recognition of Reform conversions and civil marriages performed in Israel. Shas says this platform renders Labor a copy of the anti-religious Shinui party in that it would erase all Israel's vestiges of a Jewish state.