Chief Rabbi David Lau criticised the plan as "a window to bringing the destruction of Judaism around the world to the Holy Land. They are deluding people that we are solving a problem here but it's the exact opposite.”
Claiming the document was “inviting” assimilation, he added: “The people of Israel can't accept such a reality for a single moment."
Rabbi Lau was among participants at an emergency meeting who published a manifesto expressing concern “about the danger to the Jewish people's unity as a result of the proposals for a conversion reform which excludes the Chief Rabbinate and recognises Reform and Conservative conversions.
"We call on the Prime Minister to reject the Nissim Committee's report and immediately advance legislation that will stop the High Court's attempts to recognise private conversions and Reform conversions."
Knesset Member Yakov Asher, who represents United Torah Judaism, warned: “We will strongly oppose any decision harming the status quo and the Jewish people's wholeness."
