Israeli Chief Sephardi Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron verbally approved the recommendations of a committee dealing with the conversion in Israel of children adopted abroad. The head of the committee, Rabbi Haim Druckman, a former National Religious Party Knesset member, said the committee had recommended that after the children undergo conversion, the families not be required to adopt a religiously observant lifestyle. This requirement had prompted several families to take their dilemma to Israel’s High Court of Justice in 1995.
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