Speaking to a conference of Israeli mayors in Jerusalem, Interior Minister Eli Yishai referred to attacks on Haredim by newcomer to national politics, TV personality Yair Lapid, promising: “If you bring Yair Lapid here, to the City of David, you’ll see that he’ll repent, join the (Sefardi haredi party) Shas and ‘return the crown to its old splendor.'”

Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat greeted the mayors saying he aims to increase tourism in Jerusalem to 10 million a year.

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Yori Yanover has been a working journalist since age 17, before he enlisted and worked for Ba'Machane Nachal. Since then he has worked for Israel Shelanu, the US supplement of Yedioth, JCN18.com, USAJewish.com, Lubavitch News Service, Arutz 7 (as DJ on the high seas), and the Grand Street News. He has published Dancing and Crying, a colorful and intimate portrait of the last two years in the life of the late Lubavitch Rebbe, (in Hebrew), and two fun books in English: The Cabalist's Daughter: A Novel of Practical Messianic Redemption, and How Would God REALLY Vote.