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Est. 1902
DAYS
120 YEARS OF RELIGIOUS ZIONISM
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OF AWE
CO-PRESIDENT
Rabbi Yechiel Wasserman
CHAIRMAN
Mr. Harvey Blitz THE YOM KIPPUR WAR:
REFLECTIONS AFTER 50 YEARS
CEO & EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN
Rabbi Doron Perez
DEPUT Y CEO
Rabbi Danny Mirvis PAGES 13–31
EDUC ATIONAL DIRECTORS
Rabbi Reuven Taragin
Rabbanit Shani Taragin
A Proud Daughter of Olim:
World Mizrachi is the global Religious
Zionist movement, spreading Torat Eretz
Yisrael across the world and strengthening An Interview with
the bond between the State of Israel and Ambassador Tzipi Hotovely
Jewish communities around the world.
Based in Jerusalem and with branches across the PAGES 34–37
globe, Mizrachi – an acronym for merkaz ruchani
(spiritual center) – was founded in 1902 by Rabbi
Yitzchak Yaakov Reines, and is led today by Rabbi
Doron Perez. Mizrachi’s role was then and remains
with vigor today, to be a proactive partner and to
take personal responsibility in contributing to the JEWS
collective destiny of Klal Yisrael through a commitment
to Torah, the Land of Israel and the People of Israel. with

Ideas and Inspiration for VIEWS

the Yamim Nora’im
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PRESIDENT PAGES 54–55
Stephen M. Flatow
NATIONAL CHAIRMAN
Martin Oliner REGULARS
Religious Zionists of Chicago 4 Rabbi Doron Perez 42 Rabbi Jonathan Sacks zt"l 60 Aliyah Diaries
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26 Rabbanit Shani Taragin 44 Rabbi Yosef Zvi Rimon 62 Hallel and Shammai
PRESIDENT
Dr. Oren Lakser 28 Rabbi Reuven Taragin 56 Sivan Rahav-Meir
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Rabbi Jerold Isenberg
Religious Zionists of Los Angeles CORRECTION: In the Tisha B’Av 5783 edition (Vol. 6, No. 3), “From the Charedi World to the
office@rzla.org | 209-286-7141 IDF” – we initially wrote “During his intial period in the army he studied Hebrew for three
months, and that was the only period in which he did not strictly observe mitzvot.” This
PRESIDENT was a mistranslation – the article should have said “and that was the only time in which
Dr. Chana Gelb
he was not surrounded by those who strictly observed mitzvot”.

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