The Public Emissaries
“As public emissaries who approach this responsibility with a sense of sacred duty” — so it is written in the platform, and that is precisely the conception: the emissary acts in the name of his senders. The public is the principal; whoever is sent to the Knesset is sent to serve it.
Moti Leitner Movement Chairman · Deputy Mayor of Beit Shemesh “Tens of thousands of yeshiva students and bnei Torah have become a target, dropout rates are soaring, and families are collapsing under the financial burden. We no longer have the privilege of standing aside. The time has come to act!” Asher Fradi Public figure and social entrepreneur · Adviser to the Mayor of Petah Tikva Dr. Nechumi Yaffe Scholar of Charedi society · Senior Lecturer, Tel Aviv University Ziva Glanz CEO of the Sha’ar Group · Founder of LaShuv, a network for immigrant absorption Moti Rubinstein Media and strategy professional · Founder of the “Lechatchila” channel Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein Rabbi, writer and lecturer · Decades of advocacy for Jews and for Israel Rabbi Aharon Ungar Entrepreneur · Former administrative principal of the “Pninei Chein” high school Rabbi Yehuda Oppenheimer Former congregational rabbi · Writer, editor, and licensed tour guide “My mission is to give a voice to a large and quiet public: people who grew up in the Charedi world or still see themselves as part of it, yet feel that no one represents them or the education they received from their teachers — an education that placed at its center the principle that ‘the Name of Heaven should become beloved through you,’ and the power of Torah to make a person better, gentler, and more responsible. Loyalty to Torah does not require a life of dependence or estrangement from the state: one can earn a living with dignity, be a productive and contributing citizen, acknowledge the good the State of Israel has done for the world of Torah, and honor the devotion of the pioneers and the soldiers — even without adopting any Zionist outlook, and out of deep loyalty to the Torah and its commandments.” Chaim Yehuda Leib Gottlieb Chip verification professional · Civic activist in Beitar Illit Yonah Shlomo Kaufman Real estate and finance professional · Community activist in Beit Shemesh Eliyahu Goldberg Finance professional · Graduate of the Jerusalem College of Technology in business administration and finance Rabbi Reuven Ohana Torah scholar and Torah writer · Some twenty years in the Safed rabbinate