Word: unterman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week, however, by a vote of 46 to 41, a council of rabbis and civic representatives elected him chief rabbi of Tel Aviv's Ashkenazi (European) Jews, the second most powerful rabbinicai post in the Jewish nation. The election makes Goren the man most likely to succeed Isser Unterman, 82, as Ashkenazi chief rabbi of all Israel...
Johnson's problems are hardly new, as Rabbi Issar Yehuda Unterman, the Chief Rabbi of Israel, took occasion to remind him in a brief, unofficial visit. King David, said the whitebearded rabbi, had also been assailed by "seemingly insoluble problems of state"-yet had surmounted them with divine guidance...
...Rabbi Unterman blessed Johnson with a 2,000-year-old berakah (blessing) that is recited only for chiefs of state, then read from one of King David's Psalms (18:29): "And thou, my Lord, will make my lamp to shine, and enlighten me in darkness...
...Aviv office of Israel's Chief Rabbi Isser Unterman, twelve black-coated rabbis solemnly recited their afternoon prayers and then sold several thousand acres of Israeli farm land to a smiling Arab sheik in return for his promissory note for 500,000 Israeli pounds. In exchange for a deposit of $17 down, the rabbis handed over legal ownership of the property to Abdullah Abu Kishek, then toasted the transaction with soda...
Religious Jews are a minority in Israel, but there are enough that the Chief Rabbis can keep hotels, restaurants, airlines and ships kosher by threatening to place them off-limits. The choice of Unterman and Nissim means that many of the religious strictures so galling to nonobservant Jews will continue. Telegraph service is curtailed on the Sabbath (Saturday) and on religious holidays, and in most cities and towns there is no public transportation. Except for a few Christian Arab areas, pork products are not for sale, although nonkosher shrimp is available. El Al airlines does not originate or terminate flights...