Rabbi Shlomo Aviner: Rabbinical Law Forbids Democracy For Arabs
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Image source: Ariel HorowitzRabbi Shlomo Aviner is a prominent Israeli scholar of Halacha- Jewish law. In a ruling taken from his weblog it is claimed that the esteemed Rabbi said that Halacha forbade non-Jews from taking positions of power in a Jewish state:
“A prominent Zionist rabbi ruled this week that according to the Halacha, a non-Jew cannot serve as a Knesset member in the State of Israel, even if the public agrees to it. “This is irrelevant,” said Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, “This is a Jewish state and Jews are the ones leading the Jewish state.”
Aviner was asked on his weblog whether the election of non-Jews to parliament does not undermine the government’s authority, and “is it even allowed for non-Jews to be part of the Jewish state’s leadership?”
The rabbi replied that this was indeed against a halachic ruling issued by Maimonides, and that although later there were those who sought to allow it “if the nation agrees to it,” Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook ruled this out as an “irrelevant” consideration.” (Source: Ynet News)
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