PM Netanyahu convenes urgent meeting to solve conversion crisis
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene the coalition factions on Friday at 10 am for an emergency meeting in an attempt to formulate an agreed-upon solution to the issue of the conversion law that caused a severe rift with Diaspora Jewry.
Senior coalition officials said that the proposed solution was to postpone the law by six months, and by then a public committee would be set up to formulate an agreed-upon solution to the issue of conversion.
The bill, which was approved at the beginning of the week by the Ministerial Committee on Legislation and prevents private conversion to Judaism, will not be brought for approval by the Knesset plenum.
The Yisrael Beiteinu party appealed the bill, and before the emergency meeting was convened, it was expected to return to an additional discussion in the ministerial committee on Sunday.
