Reduction, not cancellation.
Hello Rabbi.
Your views regarding the necessity (or lack thereof) of the Chief Rabbinate are well-known and public. I more or less agree with you, but despite this, I think that there is a benefit to the Rabbinate both in matters of marriage and in matters of kashrut, because it is good to have some kind of supervision. Therefore, in my opinion, in order not to abolish the Rabbinate, but to greatly reduce its power, for example, in matters of marriage, every couple who gets married (a Jewish or civil wedding) will have to register with the Rabbinate so that there are no bastards, mixed gentile children, and the like, but only for the sake of supervision and not so that the Rabbinate can prevent them from getting married. The same is true regarding conversion and kashrut, and so on.
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