World Zionist Congress election results are finalized, Orthodox and right-wing secure slates
The certification confirmed significant gains for slates led by haredi Orthodox Jews and that right-wing and religious parties together hold a majority in the American delegation for the first time.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen before a portrait of Theodor Herzl, known as the "Visionary of the Jewish State" and the founder of modern Zionism in Jerusalem on May 2, 2018.(photo credit: ABIR SULTAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)ByASAF ELIA-SHALEV/JTA