The election committee for the Ramat Hasharon city rabbinate, headed by retired Rehovot rabbi, Dayan Rabbi Nachum Gortler, announced today (Thursday), after the vote count, the election of Rabbi Yitzhak Edelstein as Chief Rabbi of the city of Ramat Hasharon.
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This appointment is part of the Ministry of Religious Services' policy to lead the permanent appointments of city rabbis in Israel, recognizing the importance of stable and permanent Torah leadership.
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This is a significant step for the residents of the city of Ramat Hasharon after the passing of his father, the great Rabbi Yaakov Edelstein zt"l.
The elections committee was headed by the retired Rabbi of Rehovot, the Dayan Rabbi Nachum Gortler. The other members of the committee were Rabbi Mordechai Abramovsky, Rabbi of the Zichron Yaakov Local Council, Hanna Shoshani, Sharon Yehezkel, and Yonit Gispan, and the Legal Bureau of the Ministry of Religious Services.
After the vote count was completed, the election committee announced the results: Rabbi Yitzhak Edelstein won 25 votes out of the 36 members of the electorate, with only 30 of them coming to vote - and he is expected to continue his father's tradition in the city's rabbinate.
Eight other candidates competed against the elected rabbi.
Rabbi Yitzhak Edelstein is the son of the previous rabbi of the city, the gaon Rabbi Yaakov Edelstein, who served in the city rabbinate for over a century.
The chosen rabbi is a resident of the city of Ramat Hasharon, a graduate of the Ponevezh Yeshiva, studied at the yeshiva's youth kollel, served as a rabbi in several yeshivahs and headed a house of teaching and halakhic law.
He was ordained by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and holds the qualifications to be a city rabbi. He also served in the halacha of the great men of Israel, from whom he learned the ways of jurisprudence.
