President elect Reuven Rivlin is going to keep his longtime office manager and assistant when he moves into the President�s Residence in July after being sworn in as Israel�s tenth president.

Mrs. Rivkah Ravitz, a daughter of the late MK Rabbi Avraham Ravitz z�l, will continue to serve Rivlin in his new post. She has been his long time executive aide when he was a Member of Knesset, and she was his bureau chief during his tenure as Knesset Speaker. Ravitz will become the first chareidi bureau chief of the President�s Residence. It appears that the director-general of the President�s Office will be Harel Tubi, who ran Rivlin�s campaign, he too being shomer Shabbos.

During an interview with Kikar Shabbos prior to the presidential election, Mrs. Ravitz said that if elected, Rivlin would open a new channel of dialogue with the chareidi tzibur.

(YWN � Israel Desk, Jerusalem)