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SANHEDRIN URGES CANDIDATES FOR JERUSALEM MAYOR TO PREPARE FOR THIRD TEMPLE

by Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz | Nov 8, 2018 | Jerusalem

Ofer Berkovich (left) and Moshe Lion - candidates for the Jerusalem Mayor.
(Credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/Breaking Israel News)

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Jerusalem will have a new mayor next week and more than any other election this
year will decide the religious nature of Israel’s capital. The nascent Sanhedrin
has addressed a letter to the two candidates emphasizing the role of the Third
Temple in municipal current policy.



The Jerusalem mayoral election held last week ran five candidates, but the
results were so close that an additional runoff vote next week is needed to
choose between the top two. Moshe Lion with 33 percent of the vote and Ofer
Berkovitch with 29 percent will run off against each other – with neither
achieving the 40 percent of the electorate required to win office.

Lion has previously been closely allied with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In 1996, Lion was appointed managing director of the Prime Minister’s Office,
serving simultaneously as his economic adviser. He continued in both those roles
until 1999. Netanyahu, however, has not officially endorsed either candidate.

Berkovich is the founder and chairman of Jerusalem’s “Hitorerut (awakening) in
Jerusalem”, a non-aligned Zionist political movement. Appointed as one of the
city’s eight deputy mayors in 2013, he has been instrumental in passing laws to
increase affordable housing in the city, such as double-taxing owners of vacant
properties and allowing local authorities to utilize public lands for the
purpose of building apartments which would be rented out at low prices. He wants
to make Jerusalem cleaner and even more high-tech friendly. He has sponsored
joint Arab-Israeli cultural and sports projects.

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“When Arabs see that Jews are fighting with them, shoulder to shoulder, for a
clean city and that the eastern part of the city remain clean, it will change
their thinking,” Berkovich told Times of Israel in an interview..

As for terrorism, he believes that if they are provided better municipal
services, they will have less reason to turn to Hamas.

But the politics of the eternal Jewish capital are most fiercely fought on the
battlefield of religion. In addition to his political connections, Lion,
religiously observant, was endorsed by leading ultra-Orthodox rabbis, an
important asset in a city in which the Haredi represent approximately 35% of the
overall Jewish vote.



Berkovich, on the other hand, was the only one of the candidates that led a
secular lifestyle. He has campaigned for businesses to open on the Sabbath. Not
only is that policy distasteful to the city’s religious residents, but Berkovich
perceives Haredi politicians as having a negative impact.

“The other candidates are liable to capitulate to the Haredi extortion, and may
not understand the strategic steps the city needs to take in order to flourish
and get on the right track,” Berkovich told Times of Israel. “They weren’t
partners in the successes of recent years: the vibrant cultural [scene],
economic development, the urban revolution… I don’t think they know what is
needed, I don’t think they know the city well enough, I don’t think they
understand what to do here.”



The religious Jewish aspect of being the mayor Jerusalem was amplified to an
even greater degree in an open letter that the Sanhedrin sent to the two
candidates.

“With God’s merciful approval, one of you will be chosen as head of the city,
may it be built and made ready for its ultimate purpose,” the Sanhedrin wrote.
“We call on the candidates as well as the voters to make choices based on truth
and on the main aspect of Jerusalem, which is the building of the Temple.”

The Sanhedrin wrote a similar letter to U.S. President Donald Trump after he won
the election, calling on him to take a role in building the Third Temple just as
Persian King Cyrus helped the Jews build the Second Temple after the Babylonian
exile in the sixth century BCE.

“Avoiding this essential issue endangers the existence of the city and its
identity as the capital of Israel, thereby endangering Israel itself,” the
Sanhedrin wrote to the mayoral candidates. “Every Jew and all of humanity are
commanded to ascend to the Temple Mount.”

“We expect you, as candidates, to relate to this role the city has as home of
the Temple. This subject is not simply a matter of religious belief but must
also be expressed in political, fiscal, and educational terms.”

The Sanhedrin emphasized the importance of Jerusalem in the world. In the
letter, they noted that the capital of Israel is frequently the focus of
domestic politics and, in the case of Trump, has become an essential part of his
platform. In the letter, the Sanhedrin praised Trump for moving the U.S. Embassy
to Jerusalem.

“Jerusalem in its entirety is sanctified as Holy and is the spiritual center of
the world, the throne of God. We urge you to make public your plans relating to
this aspect of the city. There are several ways this can be accomplished, such
as festivals of holiness to replace those of impurity.”

The Sanhedrin has already begun working toward this end, holding full-dress
reenactments of the Temple service before the Biblical feasts. Another glorious
example of this was the World Creation Concert held the week before Rosh
Hashana, which several representatives from South American countries attended.

The Sanhedrin emphasized that the city will change when the Temple is built,
requiring massive improvements to its infrastructure.



“Jerusalem must prepared to host the millions of pilgrims who will attend the
feasts when the Third Temple is built,” the letter said. “We also call on the
government to prepare a center for an international body to replace the United
Nations and the Hague, one that will be rooted in the Bible.”



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