Rabbi Shay Piron, a senior personality in the Tzohar Rabbonim organization and the Petach Tikvah Hesder Yeshiva has accepted the second position on the Yesh Atid Party list headed by Yair Lapid. Piron, 47, is reportedly a close friend of Lapid and heads the Movement for the Advancement for Education in Israel.
Lapid offering him the second slot came as a surprise to many, who view Lapid as being a staunch secularist but it appears the friendship between the two will bring some religious voters to support the party as well.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Rabbi Dov Lipman is number 17 on the list. Unlikely to make the Knesset, but still impressive. Rabbi Lipman received smicha from Rav Weinberg at Ner Israel in Baltimore.