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Two New Chief Rabbis of Israel Elected

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef has been elected chief Sephardic rabbi of Israel, while Rabbi David Lau has been elected chief Ashkenazi rabbi.

Yosef is the son of Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, while Lau is the son for former chief rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau.

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu and Rabbi David Stav reached second place.

The new Chief Rabbis, Sephardi and Ashkenazi, will replace Rabbi Shlomo Amar and Rabbi Yona Metzger, and will serve for the next ten years in office, as tipped 147 Electoral Assembly members who voted today.

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7 Comments

  • Fresser Rebbe

    BH

    I think maybe next time around we could send Harav Broyn into the mix, i think if we send even before this Shabbos so this way he could start compaigning.

    I am telling you this much, if you got a team comprised of, Hertzog Mendel Schneorson and his Chochem shver Sholom Ber Drayzin to run the campaign, and start to work on it right now as we speak, harav Broyn has a chance.

    And then we could restart the elections again for Bais Din of Kan Tzivah

  • R' Shlomo In Eretz Yisroel

    I’m tickled Pink and Blue. A double MAZEL TOV.
    WOW and another WOW !! May Klal Yisroel have TEN YEARS , and many more years of NACHES.

  • mottel

    b/c R Ovadia Yosef has in the past said people who wear sheitels go to gehinnom… need I say more?