Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai has asked former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau - who previously served as Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv - to once again become Tel Aviv's spiritual leader. Rabbi Lau has reportedly agreed to do so.
The Maariv website reports that in a meeting between the two last week, Huldai told Rabbi Lau that the rabbi is widely admired, respected and liked in Israel in general and in Tel Aviv in particular. Mayor Huldai said that in view of this, his victory over any other candidate is virtually assured.
Rabbi Lau will assumedly submit his candidacy in the coming days, and the choice of Chief Rabbi is made by the Tel Aviv City Council. He is presently in Poland, where he was born; he and his brother, orphaned from their parents, were liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp at the end of the Holocaust. Rabbi Lau is the 37th generation of practicing rabbis in his family.
The Maariv website reports that in a meeting between the two last week, Huldai told Rabbi Lau that the rabbi is widely admired, respected and liked in Israel in general and in Tel Aviv in particular. Mayor Huldai said that in view of this, his victory over any other candidate is virtually assured.
Rabbi Lau will assumedly submit his candidacy in the coming days, and the choice of Chief Rabbi is made by the Tel Aviv City Council. He is presently in Poland, where he was born; he and his brother, orphaned from their parents, were liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp at the end of the Holocaust. Rabbi Lau is the 37th generation of practicing rabbis in his family.