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This single sheet of newspaper was printed as a supplement to a publication called Le-Kol Yisrael, no.10. R. Amram Blau was the publisher, and the price was 10 mil.
The title translates as "The Law of the communities, for the good of the congregation". In a brief introduction, this supplement states that it is important that the correct version of this "constitution" be available to the Haredi community, without the omissions that were present in the version that was printed in HaEretz on the 8th of Teveth.
The legal setup of the Knesset Yisrael community, with definitions, rights and responsibilities was then spelled out. Included was a section on the Chief Rabbinate, as well as Aseifat Nivharim and the Vaad Leumi.
Knesset Yisrael was established in 1920 as the internal governing entity of the Jewish Yishuv. It included all Jewish members of the Yishuv except the ultraorthodox, and comprised two bodies: the Aseifat Nivharim (Elected Assembly or Assembly of Representatives) and the Vaad Leumi chosen from it. Lord Herbert Samuel, the first Palestine High Commissioner, granted informal recognition to these bodies in a letter, but it was not until 1928 that the Aseyfat Nivharim and Va'ad Hayishuv received limited recognition from the British Mandate government under Lord Plummer. The British were unwilling to concede rights of autonomous government to the Jewish community. Knesset Yisrael. The formal establishment of Knesset Yisrael and the other bodies. was based on the 1926 mandatory law regarding religious communities. It had formal oversight of the rabbinate and of local governing councils, and over social legislation and education
R. Amram Blau (1894–1974), rabbi, leader of the ultra-Orthodox sect Neturei Karta. R. Blau was born in Jerusalem into a noted religious family. He was a leading member of the Agudat Israel youth movement in the early 1930s, and was the editor of its organ Kol Yisrael [the Voice of Israel}. R. Blau and some of his colleagues left the movement in 1935 and founded the extreme anti-Zionist Hevrat Hayyim, later to become Neturei Karta. His fierce opposition to Zionism and Agudat Israel, sometimes expressed violently, led on several occasions to his prosecution and imprisonment. His anti-Zionist attitude did not change with the establishment of the State of Israel (1948), which he refused to recognize. In 1965, after the death of his first wife, he married a proselyte, Ruth Ben-David, despite the opposition of the ultra-Orthodox bet din and some of his followers.
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