ISRAEL-JUDAISM-FOOD-RELIGION-JUSTICE

Customers sit at the Carousela restaurant, which was supervised by Hashgaha Pratit - Hebrew for private supervision - to check it abides by kosher practices, on June 8, 2016, in Jerusalem's Rehavia neighbourhood. A few years ago, restaurants fed up with the Chief Rabbinate, the Jewish religious authority overseeing the kosher certificates, decided to declare their food kosher but without supervision. Aaron Leibowitz, a soft-spoken rabbi and Jerusalem city council member involved in the effort to end the monopoly, joined forces with them, leading to the formation of Hashgaha Pratit. The initiative has since 2013 provided restaurants and cafes with supervision and a certificate. Its members currently number a few dozen, mostly in Jerusalem. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY JONAH MANDEL (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)