In Lod they celebrate: This evening (Thursday), a religious council was elected to serve the religious needs of approximately 100,000 residents of the city - after more than 14 years in which a committee headed by representatives of the Ministry of Religious Services served.
The Religious Council is responsible for providing religious services to residents: mikvahs, burial services, cemeteries, ceremonies and vigils, baptisms and marriages, urban planning, and more.
Attorney Shabtai Katash from the Likud was elected to the position of Chairman of the Religious Council, by a vote of 9 elected council members: Shabtai Katash, Kesem Verolker, Nissim Ezra, Mordechai Koren, Elisha Weizman, Chaim Eliyahu Zalman Sachs, Rivka Peretz, Amichai Yehoshua Langfeld and Avichai Yaakovi.
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This is an achievement for the Mayor of Lod, Attorney Yair Revivo, who succeeded - despite all predictions - in appointing a Likud member as chairman of the Religious Council in Lod for the first time, many years after a committee appointed by the Ministry of Religious Services, headed first by Rabbi Amram Ivgi and then by Rabbi Yitzhak Musai, served.
In a way that Revivo crafted, he managed to unite the members of the religious council from wall to wall and unanimously approve the appointment of Attorney Shabtai Katash, a Chabad follower, to the position of chairman.
The event was graced by the Chief Rabbi of Lod, Rabbi Shimon Meir Biton, the Chairman of the Appointed Committee, Yitzhak Musai, the Director General of the Lod Municipality, Aharon Atias, and members of the Lod City Administration, alongside rabbis and public figures.
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