
For about three years, the Religious Council in Petah Tikva has been seeking to regulate the work of supervisors in the city, and to separate the supervisor from the supervisor - through a tender it issued for hiring a company to manage kashrut.
After the court allowed the tender process, the tender committee of the Petah Tikva Religious Council determined this week that the 'Kafl' company will manage the work of the supervisors in the city.
''Kafl' is a non-profit organization and all of its profits will benefit the efficiency of kashrut in the city.
The committee's decision of reasons states: "The Kafal team is a team of values that identifies with the essence of the service. They convey caring and are interested in the success of the kashrut system.".
The Petah Tikva Religious Council emphasizes that, alongside the tender's main goal - to regulate the work of the supervisors, the tender was structured so that food businesses would not have to pay more than they paid in the past, without harming the supervisors' salaries.
As we recall, Judge Elyakim Rubinstein defined the positive purpose of the tender in the High Court ruling on the tender: "The dispute in this case concerns a tender issued by Respondent 2 (the local rabbinate and the Petah Tikva religious council) for a very worthy purpose, of regulating the supervision of kashrut in Petah Tikva, so that under the subordination of the supervisors to the owners of eateries as employers, by all that is implied, the employment of the supervisors will be by a central company.".
The Petah Tikva Religious Council sees the right of the first to regulate the work of the supervisors, according to the direction of the Chief Rabbinate's outline - to sever the relationship between the supervisor and the supervisor.