Ya'akov Asher
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Ya'akov Asher is an Israel
i rabbi and politician. He currently serves as the thirteenth mayor of Bnei Brak, having taken office in 2008.
A member of Degel HaTorah
, by 2008 he had already been involved with the city council for nineteen years. He became mayor in 2008 without an election, as there were no opposing candidates due to an agreement between Degel HaTorah and Agudat Yisrael to share the post of mayor on an alternating basis. He previously ran for mayor of El'ad, but lost to Tzuriel Krispel.
Israel
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i rabbi and politician. He currently serves as the thirteenth mayor of Bnei Brak, having taken office in 2008.
A member of Degel HaTorah
Degel HaTorah
Degel HaTorah is an Ashkenazi Haredi political party in Israel. For much of its existence it has been allied to Agudat Yisrael under the name United Torah Judaism.-Ideology:...
, by 2008 he had already been involved with the city council for nineteen years. He became mayor in 2008 without an election, as there were no opposing candidates due to an agreement between Degel HaTorah and Agudat Yisrael to share the post of mayor on an alternating basis. He previously ran for mayor of El'ad, but lost to Tzuriel Krispel.