After four years without a local rabbi from the rabbinate, in the city of Torah and Hasidism – Bnei Brak, Deputy Minister Matan Kahana began to initiate the election of the new mayor | ‘In the Haredi Rooms’ publishes for the first time the announcements of Sgt. Kahana and who are the candidates who are already preparing for the position | All the details in the first publication
First publication: Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs MK Matan Kahana from the right announced today (Wednesday) that he will begin the process of electing the mayor of the city of Bnei Brak, four years after the city’s mythological rabbi on behalf of the rabbinate, the late Rabbi Shlomo Korach Yemen has passed away.
In Bnei Brak, rabbis from the municipality of Gerachia Landa, Rabbi Ben Shimon and Gershom Rosenblatt serve as rabbis before the rabbinate has not yet been elected, and the person who took the place of Rabbi Korach was Rabbi Weiss, a member of the Chief Rabbinical Council.
Behadrei Haredim has learned that Deputy Minister Kahana has informed the Chief Rabbis of Israel that he is interested in starting the election process, beginning with the election of retired judge Avraham Tenenbaum to head the panel that will elect the judges, then appointing an appointment committee and setting a date for the election.
So far it is known that Rabbi Amram Korach, the son of the former rabbi and leader of the Yemenite community who is already receiving the support of the first Zionist Rabbi Yosef and other rabbis, will also run for the position. And an activist who also stirs in politics, who in the past held support from the house of the late Minister of Torah Garach Kanievsky, who is no longer relevant today.
Recently, Matan Kahana changed the rules of procedure in electing city rabbis in Israel so that the power passes to the religious council as well as representatives of the minister and head of the local authority. sun.
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It will be recalled that this week we published for the first time in Behadrei Haredim that the heads of the Haredi factions, Aryeh Deri and Moshe Gafni, sent a letter to the “Speaker of the Government”D. Gali in Harav-Miara lFreeze the regulations, with the petition submitted to the High Court on behalf of the City Rabbis and Settlement Committee in Israel now awaiting a decision by the judges, but in recent days the Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs has begun the process of selecting city rabbis in various local authorities, including Tel Aviv-Yafo, Rosh HaAyin and more.