Aside from being very disturbed by the words directed by a gadol at an individual, a talmid chochom who he has admitted he has never met or talked to, I am once again wondering why anyone, like the apologists for harsh words here, who in general either denigrates, doesn’t follow for kashrus or geirus, or otherwise ignores the Chief Rabbinate for practical purposes has the gall to take a position for or against ANYONE vying for the rabanut harashit. WHy should you even deserve to have an opinion if you have such mocking disdain for the institution??
Is it maybe because all of a sudden jobs and appointments within the rabbinate will not automatically go to a chareidi Rov, Ashkenazic or sefardic? And have we thus uncovered the real reason why such a milchomo is being waged by so many against a (horrors) Dati Tzioni rav?
Scratch away the varnish, and too often you uncover concerns about money and power.