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(December 25, 2022 / JNS) Israels Chief Sephardic Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef will chair the committee that will select the next Israel Defense Forces chief rabbi, Kan 11 reported on Saturday, adding that the change is part of a coalition agreement between Likud and the Religious Zionism Party.

Yosefs committee will include a government representative, the head of a yeshiva, two yeshiva organization representatives, the head of the IDF Personnel Directorate and a former chief military rabbi.

The committee that will determine the identity of the chief military rabbi will be subordinate to the Chief Rabbinate, Walla said in a report on Sunday.

This has far-reaching significance, since the Military Rabbinate has until now been independent in its rulings, and on many issues it had different stances from the Chief Rabbinate, the report added.

Such issues include conversion, the burial of non-Jewish soldiers, operational conduct on Shabbat and womens IDF service.

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National Unity Party member of Knesset and former IDF Chief of Staff and State Party member Lt. Gen. (res.) Gadi Eisenkot slammed the change in the selection process.

The decision to remove the IDF chief of staff and defense ministers authority in selecting the chief military rabbi stems from the political weakness of Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu, Eisenkot said. He accused Netanyahus political partners of being drunk on power.

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