The strike involves more than 3,000 people, including many rabbis, who work at municipal rabbinates and religious councils.

Since then two other clerics, also members of their district religious councils, have been shot to death.

This religious federal council represents an "Islamic type of government" unique today.

The vast majority of local religious councils will not allow non-Orthodox representation.

It is no longer a matter of a religious council... It's something that has historical meaning.

In Iran, a democracy of sorts is controlled by a religious council.

The six empty seats in the religious sector were appointed by the religious councils.

Maybe they're investigating, or he stepped down in private and joined their religious council.

He is the religious council and the law.

Between 1993 and 2003 he served as chairman of the local religious council in Beersheba.