INVITATION: The Charedi Public with Moti Leitner, Wed Oct 21

Tel Aviv International Salon, presents: The Election Series

The Charedi Public with Chairman Moti Leitner

In-English Townhall + Candidates Dr. Nechumi Yaffe & Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer

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Cost: FREE

Date: Wednesday Oct 21st, 2026, 7:30pm

Venue: ZOA House, 1 Daniel Frisch, Tel Aviv

Who: Event open to all ages

This event will be open to media. Press requests email: [email protected]

About Our Speakers: The Charedi Public

Moti Leitner founded and chairs HaTzibur HaCharedi, and sits on the Beit Shemesh

city council for Derech, the faction he built there. He was born in Jerusalem

and raised in the Rachmastrivka Hasidic community, and was educated in a Talmud

Torah and yeshivas. He trained as a Hebrew teacher, sat his matriculation exams

as an adult and retrained as a software developer, making a career in software

and DevOps. Post Oct 7th, he enlisted in the IDF.

Dr. Nechumi Yaffe is a political psycologist, former national security advisor

on Charedi affairs and founded a Charedi volunteer hub post Oct 7th. She is a

Senior Faculty Member in the School of Social and Policy Studies at Tel Aviv

University, researcher and lecturer on ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) society in

Israel, and Director of the TITA Institute, which aims to integrate the Charedi

sector into Israeli society. Dr. Yaffe is a Charedi woman from a Hasidic home,

and is one of the first Charedi researchers in academia. Her doctoral thesis

dealt with poverty and identity in Charedi society. She did her post-doctorate

work at Princeton University.

Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer is the Chair of the party's rabbinic committee. He is

also the Rabbi of the Ohr Chadash community in Ramot, Jerusalem, Founder and

Editor-in-Chief of Tzarich Iyun, a journal of Charedi philosophy, head of the

Charedi Israel Division of the Tikvah Fund, and a lecturer in the Faculty of Law

at Hebrew University and in other academic and religious frameworks. Pfeffer

holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in law from Hebrew University, and

completed an Israeli Supreme Court internship (under Justice Neil Hendel). He is

a Board Member of Netzah Yehuda, an organization that supports Charedi IDF

soldiers. He previously served as a Dayan (Rabbinical Judge) on a monetary

Rabbinical Court in Jerusalem, and in a variety of rabbinical and legal

positions.