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Chief Rabbinate Council

Internal elections were held on September 23, 2008.

There are five permanent members on the Chief Rabbinate Council. These are:

  • The Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi (Yona Metzger)
  • The Sephardi Chief Rabbi (Shlomo Amar)
  • Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv (Yisrael Meir Lau)
  • Chief Rabbi of Haifa (Shlomo Chelouche)
  • Chief Rabbi of Beersheba (Yehuda Deri)

There are also representatives for the Ashkenazi and Sephardi communities:

Ashkenazi representatives

  • Rabbi Yaakov Shapira (Rosh Yeshiva Mercaz HaRav)
  • Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman (Chief Rabbi of Migdal HaEmek)
  • Rabbi Yosef Glicksburg (Chief Rabbi of Giv'atayim)
  • Rabbi Yaakov Rojza (Neighbourhood rabbi in Bat Yam / ZAKA)
  • Rabbi Yitzhak Ralbag (former chairman of Jerusalem Rabbinate council)

Sephardi representatives

  • Rabbi Shimon Elituv (Chief Rabbi of Mateh Binyamin Regional Council)
  • Rabbi Avraham Yosef (Chief Rabbi of Holon)
  • Rabbi Ratzon Arusi (Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Ono)
  • Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu (Chief Rabbi of Safed)
  • Rabbi Yitzhak Peretz (Chief Rabbi of Raanana)

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