Interior Minister Gideon Saar took part in the first Bnei Brak City Council meeting under the administration of Mayor Rabbi Chanoch Zeibert. The mayor used the event to officially announce the new coalition.

In his address to local officials, Saar explained that Bnei Brak was the first city he visited after assuming his current cabinet post. He spoke of his good relations with city officials, adding he has already learned to differentiate between different chassidic courts, citing with Gerre Chassidim one must speak directly to the point.”

The minister promised to continue doing his utmost to assist the Torah city, then addressing the need for achdus on the national level. He stated that in an address at a conference earlier in the week he stated “each walk of life has its good points, its positive aspects, and one of those is chareidi education. It would be difficult to deny the positive aspect that each of us can see with an objective eye. Where can we find less violence of more honor and respect for parents?”

“However, in the same way, we must see the alternatives, the Nobel Prize laureates in the sciences – and the advantageous of the state education system.”

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)