The Rabbinical Nominations Board agreed today to a request from a Joint Mapai-National Religious party delegation to postpone the elections of Chief Rabbis and a new Supreme Rabbinate Council again.
Rabbi Judah Maimon, chairman of the nominations board, accepted the plea but cut the time from the six weeks asked by the delegation to five weeks. He designated February 1 as the latest date for the much postponed balloting. The bargaining was understood, however, to be a formality because it has been learned that the elections will not be held for at least another six months as a result of inter party maneuvering on the issue.
At issue is the question of candidates for the posts of Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi, which has been vacant since the death nearly 18 months ago of Rabbi Isaac Halevi Herzog, and Sephardic Chief Rabbi, now held by Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim, who is a candidate for reelection. The Mapai party favors Rabbi Shlomo Goren, Chief Chaplain of the Armed Forces, for the post of Ashcenazic Chief Rabbi.
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