David Lau

Chief Rabbi Lau: Ethiopian Christian missionaries infiltrating Israel, end aliyah initiative

It is "time to treat applicants from Ethiopia the same as anyone who applies from anywhere else in the world," said Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Israel David Lau.

|ByMICHAEL STARR
A person holds a crucifix outside a Catholic church in Harare, Zimbabwe March 29, 2024.
OMER ADAM at a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the liberation and unification of Jerusalem, at the city’s Ammunition Hill, in 2017.

Grapevine, April 19, 2024: A sad Seder

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Israel's Chief Rabbi David Lau is seen at the establishment of the Latin American Rabbinical Organization, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on August 2, 2023.

Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau calls for slain Palestinian convert to be buried in Jewish grave

David Ben-Avraham (born Saamach Zeitoun) underwent a non-rabbinate conversion in Bnei Brak in 2019 and was mistakenly killed by IDF troops in March.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
ASHKENAZI CHIEF Rabbi David Lau (left) and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef: The silence of our two chief rabbis is thunderously indicative of the abject state of these once meaningful and relevant positions, the writer argues.

Rabbinate releases instructions for keeping Shabbat during wartime

Some laws can be altered or followed differently due to the principle of "pikuach nefesh," asving a person's life.

|ByYUVAL BARNEA

New Chief Rabbis sworn in on a big day for Tzipi Livni

Livni had the privilege of sitting on the dais together with President Peres, Deputy Min. for Religious Affairs Eli Ben Dahan and the rabbis.

AUGUST 14, 2013ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Swearing in of David Lau, Yitzhak Yosef 370