The Chief Rabbinate elections will be held tomorrow as originally scheduled after the Supreme Court today reversed its order for a postponement, issued yesterday.
The postponement was decreed on technical grounds. The government, which appoints 20 members of the 150-man electoral college had named 10 Ashkenazim to nine Sephardic electors, thereby disturbing the 75-75 balance between the two branches of the rabbinate.
Minister of Religion Yosef Burg acted quickly to amend the discrepancy by replacing one of the Ashkenazic electors by a Sephardi and the high court saw no further reason for delay. The electoral college is an ad hoc body constituted by law to elect the Chief Rabbis. It consists of rabbis, Knesset members and such local level politicians as mayors and chairmen of local religious councils.
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