Regular Rabbanut Yerushalayim vs Rabbanut Yerushalayim Mehad

What's the difference between the two? For example, if I eat OU, OK, Chaf K.. in America which do I eat, regular or Mehadrin? I've been getting confusing answers from Rabbi's, can anyone else explain?
Thanks!

If you are MO, you probably will accept regular Rabbanut.
If you are Haredi, you might not even accept Rabbanut Mehadrin Yerushalayim....

If you are in the middle, you need decide, or find the right Rabbi to ask....it's different if you ask a Rav in the US, since he doesn't live here, he is likely to tell you to keep only mehadrin...

We are makpid about glatt meat, so if the restaurant is using glatt meat, we are okay with the regular... for dairy, we are okay with Rabbanut... (and during shmitta we are more machmir than average too, which can nix some regular rabbanut places...)

Please ask a rav and do not pasken from the Internet. Kashrus in Israel is very different than in America. You have to take trumos and ma'asros into account. No one can tell you what to eat based on what you eat in America.
(I eat all the American hechshers you mentioned, but I do not eat Rabbanut or Rabbanut Mehadrin.)

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Rabbanut mehadrin is better than plain rabbanut.
You should really ask you're rav, it's not something anyone else can tell you.
We're makpid not to eat either.

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Yeah you have to ask your own rav. We eat all of those hechsherim in the US (we are not even makpid for chalav yisrael) But here we don't eat rabanut yerushalaim or mehadrin or even ou Israel (apparently its different from its American counterpart

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In addition to the above you should be aware that when you eat "rabbanut yerushalayim " you may be eating from any and every rabbanut in the country because a rabbanut hechshered restaurant uses products with a rabbanut hechsher from anywhere. If you are fine with that, fine, just be aware of what that means.
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As an American Kollel couple living in e"y and we consider ourselves in the "chareidi" camp, we don't eat rabanut, and don't eat rabanut mahadrin for meat, but we do eat it for dairy. Restaurants like rimon in mamilla and ben yehuda, and beit ticho are rabanut mahadrin. But, we have fellow chareidi American in kollel relatives that wouldn't even eat rabanut mahadrin for dairy...so basically, find a posek in Israel to ask. I'm not sure if Rabbanim in America get all the intricacies with Israeli Kashrus

op here, thanks for the info- I'm gonna try to find a rav here that I can rely on and can really explain the ins and out's to me!

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So, our Rav is out of town and maybe you're right. He wouldn't know anyhow. How do I navigate food choices in Israel? We don't eat chalav Yisrael, but we do insist on good hechsherim and glatt kosher, and I want to make sure all is done al pi halacha. I thought Mehadrin was OK. What can I rely on when I go to a grocery store or restaurant? Which restaurants are generally accepted?

Same answer: Find yourself a rav you can really rely on. If you ask here, you will just get the answers each person's rav gave...

It should be noted that it is very political as well...

and plenty of frum people eat Rabbunut mehadrin, and many of them eat regular Rabbanut...(and they eat OU Israel too..)

most of the imamothers are making it sound like if its not badatz its treif ...

I agree with asking.

I also agree with last amother.

My dh's cousin who is a rabbi, doesnt eat rabbanut meat restaurant. He doesnt keep glatt/CY out of minhag, and eats stam kosher in Europe, but thinks stam kosher meat is less strict in Israel.

My dh's ruv is VERY charedi and he eats dairy rabbanut, meat mehadrin. He is a kashrus gadol.
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or at least somewhat political...

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There are problems with all hechsherim here, seriously.
I know someone in the food industry that no way, no how will eat anything badatz eida chareidis, after what he's seen. And other people who will never eat badatz beit yosef. And people that won't eat badatz chasam sofer. And people that won't eat landau. And people that won't eat... pretty much every hechsher out there.
You can't get a clear cut answer of what is a good hechsher and what is not, and not even what is better than another that is agreed upon by everyone. You just need to ask a rav and follow what he says.
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