Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation gave a green light on Sunday for the highly controversial conversion bill spearheaded by Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana. The bill would empower regional and municipal rabbinates with the authority to oversee conversions for would-be converts who prefer to bypass the Chief Rabbinate, which currently controls the mechanism. Passage of…
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Israel Securities Authority Granted The Right To Open âAlternative Stock Exchange Date
05/03/2021
For the first time in history, the Israel Securities Authority, a leader in the regulatory space, has been granted the right to open an “alternative stock exchange.” The Authority (the country’s securities regulator) has been given permission to allow DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology) Securities Exchanges to operate from Israel. What this means, in effect, is the creation of a second stock exchange, which could establish new digital and other more sophisticated trading platforms, based on the blockchain.
This came about through a bill submitted by Finance Minister Israel Katz and approved by Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation which would establish such a “designated stock exchange” in Israel and new trading platforms, especially by removing barriers to licensing. The law will include increasing the Authority s supervisory authority over underwr