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Article: Religious Affairs Ministry opposes moving Chief Rabbinate
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- Jerusalem Post
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- September 5, 1996
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HAIM SHAPIRO
Jerusalem Post
09-05-1996
THE chief rabbis' plans to leave their offices in Jerusalem's Hechal Shlomo may be halted, if the two deputy religious affairs ministers have anything to say about it.
The deputy ministers, Rabbi Aryeh Gamliel of Shas and Yigal Bibi of the National Religious Party, issued a joint statement yesterday calling on the Chief Rabbinate to reconsider its decision to leave Hechal Shlomo for a government office building.
The building, erected in the 1950s with funds donated for the purpose by the late Sir Isaac Wolfson, is administered by a non-profit association. The Chief Rabbinate had complained that the rent is too high and that there is not enough working ...