Yachad party leader Eli Yishai may have dropped from the political circuit for the time being but he is not forgotten. On Monday night the eve of 12 Menachem Av his son Ovadia had his bar mitzvah seuda, which was attended by prominent rabbonim, senior cabinet ministers and askanim. The event was held in Nof Yerushalayim in Bayit Vegan.

Among the notables who came to wish him and the chosson bar mitzvah mazel tov were HaGaon HaRav Meir Mazuz Shlita, Rishon L’Tzion Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron Shlita, Chief Rabbi Dovid Lau Shlita, Rabbi Moshe Tzadka Shlita, Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar Shlita, the Admor of Pinsk-Karlin Shlita, the Bostoner Rebbe of Har Nof Shlita, Mekubal Rabbi Binayahu Shmueli, Dayan Rav Ezra Batzri, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, Deputy Defense Minister Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan, Interior Minister Silvan Shalom, Deputy Minister Ayoub Kara, Jerusalem Councilman Yossi Deutsch, Deputy Minister Meir Porush, former MKs Nissim Ze’ev, Yoni Chetboun, Gideon Saar, along with other elected officials, admorim, rabbonim and askanim.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)