Ynet reports:
Eight days after the High Court's ruling, the Chief Rabbinate obeyed the decision and authorized five rabbis to grant kashrut certificates to businesses which practice heter mechira in area where local rabbis refused to do so.
According to the Council, each rabbi will deal with the issues his area. In areas that are not under the jurisdiction of the five rabbis – the issue will be determined by the Council.…
Tzohar [the non-haredi rabbinical group that forced the issue by setting up its own produce-supervision agency to certify heter mechira produce in areas where the Rabbinute and haredi local rabbis refused to do so] … said in response, "We are satisfied with the Rabbinate's decision. We will continue to operate the alternate kashrut apparatus until we are convinced that every business that wants a certificate based on heter mechira receives it. We did not establish an alternative rabbinate; we will be happy if the Rabbinate fulfills its mandate and make our apparatus unnecessary."…
Of course, we'll need to wait a bit to see if the Rabbinut is truly making heter mechira produce available without penalty to all businesses that want to sell it. I suspect we may have a story a year from now where the local haredi rabbis who refused to allow heter mechira into the (largely secular) cities they 'serve' refuse to certify these businesses in regular kashrut matters or find other ways of harassing businesses that did not give in to haredi demands. Time will tell …