JERUSALEM - dozens of prominent Rabbi in Israel including many who are appointed persons Government signed a religious ruling against renting or selling real estate to not Jews, triggering a furious backlash and the possibility of a criminal investigation.
The judgment was first a few weeks ago Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, the Chief of Rabbi of Safed, a town in the northern Israel issued by a steady increase in the number of Arab students coming to a local college study has seen.
An Israeli newspaper reported this week that 300 rabbis around the country on the judgment had signed and planned to publish you over the weekend in religious newspapers.
The number of the prominent rabbis involved and the fact that 47 you Chief Rabbi of communities and therefore officials set off a wave of anger in Israel crescendo achieved a Thursday night, when Attorney General Yehuda said Weinstein he was looking into possible criminal charges against the rabbis.
Mr. Weinstein called instructions "in several aspects problematic" and "inappropriate for public officials."
The judgment has cancelled two Chief Rabbi of the country and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was.
In a rare foray into the Israeli policy stretched the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial of a statement Thursday calling the ruling "a severe blow to the values of our lives as Jews."
The religious ruling mentions a number of famous Jewish assign such as Maimonides and says there is a risk of mixed marriages provided through the sale of land to not Jews and can have adverse effects on property values.
"Answers, we it prohibited to sell by the Torah, a house or a field in the country Israel to a Gentile hereby" the letter says.
It calls for Jews, sell or rent land to non-Jews to outlawed, calls its neighbours and known not with you shops make and says you should be denied the right to read from the Torah.
She said some signatories signed, because it considered as a matter of national security.
Others cited persistent rumors in recent months, the Arab Governments quietly efforts to buy up Jewish property in the entire northern Israel were financing.
"We have worked for years, to snatch the country Israel by the Arabs, and now we will return it," said Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, one of the signatories of the letter, and the chief rabbi of Bet El, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank.
It took a raw nerve in Israel, where WINS nationalist and religious parties in numbers and influence have.
Hardliners parties have in recent months, a series of laws that appeared to pick out the Israeli Palestinian minority, deep unease among many Israeli and Jewish leaders stir suggested that said, fearing that the growing push for laws of Israel was undermined democratic values.
Israel has long fought with his Palestinian minority, granted the descendants of those who remained within Israel 1948 after the war and were eventually citizenship.
Today, they cover about one-fifth of the country, but complain widespread discrimination. Many Israelis on the other hand, show them suspicious.
But such controversies decisions by leading rabbis once would have been unthinkable in Israel, Rabbi David Rosen, an Israeli rabbi said based in Jerusalem, working on the inter-religious dialogue for the American Jewish Committee.
The rabbinical establishment has undergone dramatic changes over the years of always haTora sects, whose Führer completely in haTora schools known as Yeshivot are educated, increasingly dominated.
Have virtually no risk of the secular or non-Jewish world, he said.
Israel's first Chief of Rabbi, Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, had three doctoral degrees, including one from the Sorbonne in Paris and others from the University of London.
"The Rabbinate today more island and narrower than at any point in the history of Israeli", Rabbi said roses.
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