Photo: Courtesy of the Sderot Municipality
After more than a decade without a mayor, the elections for the Sderot rabbinate will take place in about two weeks: July 19 (20 Tammuz) – and now the list of candidates who will compete for the position of mayor of Sderot has been completed. The list was made possible after the petition against the election was rejected.
Srugim has learned that the final list of candidates in the approved election includes the Chabad emissary in Sderot, Rabbi Moshe Zeev sang; The head of the Torah nucleus and rabbi at the Hesder Yeshiva, Rabbi Dror Twill; Rabbi Yaakov Israel Menashe, former chairman of the religious council Rabbi Oren Malka; And the rabbi Amram Eleazar will live.
In Srugim, we have previously published that, according to estimates in Sderot, Rabbi Twill is the leading candidate for the office of the city rabbi.
As mentioned, Sderot has not had an incumbent rabbi for 10 years. The Knesset elections halted the election procedures of the rabbis of the towns and cities, but in the past year the traffic jam has been released when incumbent rabbis have received a ‘standard’ and become the rabbi of the settlement officially, and in the big cities elections are held for city rabbis.
The mayor of Sderot will be determined by the electorate, which includes 16 representatives – including 4 representatives of the Minister of Religious Affairs, 8 representatives of the municipality according to a factional key in the city council and another 4 elected from the synagogues in the city. The 12 delegates have not yet been elected, but last March the public representatives were elected from the following synagogues: the Mishkan Shalom Synagogue, the Doresh Tov Synagogue, the Shevet Ahim Synagogue and the Caucasus Community Synagogue.
The move to elect the city rabbi was initiated by Deputy Minister of Religions Matan Kahana, while he was still a minister, and the election process that has already begun will continue even though we are after the dissolution of the Knesset.
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