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Deri considers renaming ultra-Orthodox city in honor of late Rabbi Shteinman
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleInterior Minister Aryeh Deri is said to be considering changing the name of the ultra-Orthodox city of Elad to Ayelet Hashahar in honor of the late Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman, a top Haredi rabbi in Israel until his death last month at the age of 104.
Rabbis affiliated with the Degel Hatorah political party, part of the United Torah Judaism faction in the Knesset, spoke with Deri about the possibility in recent days, according the ultra-Orthodox news website Kikar Hashabbat.
Ayelet Hashahar is Shteinman’s pen name in his extensive published commentaries on the Bible and Talmud.
It is not clear if the name change will be possible given that Ayelet Hashahar is already the name of a kibbutz in the Upper Galilee.
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