Top Rabbis Meet Ahead of Elections Amid Draft Evasion Arrests
Translated & summarized from Arutz Sheva by baba
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- Top Haredi rabbis met to discuss yeshiva students' conscription.
- The meeting occurred ahead of upcoming elections.
- Support for yeshiva students amid draft evader arrests was a key topic.
- The encounter generated significant interest in the Haredi community.
Ahead of the upcoming elections and amid the ongoing issue of yeshiva students' conscription, Rabbi Meir Tzvi Bergman, the elder of the Council of Torah Sages of Degel HaTorah and a leader of the Lithuanian yeshiva world, met with the Grand Rabbi of Gur. The meeting, which took place on Sunday, the intermediate days of Sukkot, generated significant interest in the Haredi community.
Rabbi Bergman visited the Grand Rabbi of Gur at his residence. The two leaders met privately for about fifteen minutes, discussing Torah matters, sharing a toast, and addressing urgent current issues. A central topic of their conversation was the need to support yeshiva students in light of continued arrests of draft evaders within the Haredi sector across the country.
At the conclusion of the visit, the Grand Rabbi of Gur escorted Rabbi Bergman to his departure, a gesture of mutual respect that moved Rabbi Bergman, who had repeatedly asked the Rabbi not to trouble himself.
