 Soon after that the rules were amended so that Trump's conversion was accepted, although there were some questions about whether that was done merely to curry favour with the new US president.The conversion process was dragged into the political sphere when the ultra-Orthodox allies of the Chief Rabbis in the Knesset attempted to pass a law stating that the Chief Rabbis were not permitted to conduct conversions in Israel and would not be recognised.The control that the Rabbinate attempted to exert, extended beyond the Israeli borders, when they attempted to create universal standards for conversion for all communities outside of Israel.