Barry:
“It’s a function of the Chief Rabbinate. The Cabinet Minister has been there a very short term and is trying to make reasonable changes.”
Again, that is simply incorrect. While the Chief Rabbis set the policy, it is the Ministry of Religious Services that carries them out.
“especially from your last sentence, you are commenting on something you made up, which is the opposite of what I said. I said clearly enough that approved Rabbi’s, who passed the Rabbinate Smicha exams and after the central body confirms their kosher status for marriage.”
I was not commenting on something I “made up”. I was commenting on recently modified Israeli geirus law, passed with Bayit Yehudi’s support, that allows any certified “Rabbi” in the country to perform geirus to his own standards. The Chief Rabbis have both said they will not recognize these said conversions, because it allows too much latitude to individual Rabbis and provides no oversight.
What you are referring to, where any Rabbi could perform the ceremony of the geirus once they have received a go-ahead from the Chief Rabbinate and as per the procedure supported by the Chief Rabbinate, indeed does not have these problems; however, that is simply not what the current law says.