20 Facts About Dov Lipman

Dov Lipman served as a member of the Knesset for Yesh Atid between 2013 and 2015.

Dov Lipman served as an intern for Congressman John Dingell.

Dov Lipman continued his studies at Ner Israel Rabbinical College in Baltimore, Maryland where he received rabbinic ordination while studying at Johns Hopkins University where he received a master's degree in Education.

The party won 19 seats in the January 2013 elections and Dov Lipman was elected to Knesset, becoming its first American-born member in nearly 30 years.

Dov Lipman renounced US citizenship to take the position, as Israeli law does not allow dual citizens to serve in the Knesset.

Dov Lipman chaired the Knesset task force to help Haredim enter the work force, the Knesset task force for dialogue between religious and secular, and held the party's portfolio for the environment, public health, and preventing the suffering of animals.

Dov Lipman headed the Knesset's delegation to the parliaments of South Africa and England.

Dov Lipman took part in diplomatic missions to South Africa, England, Germany, Hungary, and the United States.

Dov Lipman was placed seventeenth on the Yesh Atid list for the 2015 elections, which saw him lose his seat as the party won only eleven seats.

In June 2017, Dov Lipman's son was attacked by a mob of ultra-Orthodox extremists when he entered an ultra-Orthodox Haredi neighborhood in Mea Shearim dressed in his IDF uniform.

Dov Lipman characterized the incident as part of a broader pattern of rising hostility toward Haredi soldiers and proposed legislation to address the tension.

In June 2021, Dov Lipman established Yad L'Olim, and NGO which provides services for new immigrants, their families and global Jewry.

Dov Lipman believes his task is to be "a conduit of tolerance and acceptance" between the Haredi and secular world.

Dov Lipman worked with the secular Lapid in the struggle to fight extremism in the Haredi community.

Dov Lipman worked with Rabbi Menachem Bombach to establish a network of yeshiva high schools aimed at Haredi boys and girls, providing an educational framework that integrates intensive religious studies with general studies.

Later, after receiving a letter from Dov Lipman explaining his views, Rabbi Feldman retracted that statement, describing him as an "unintentional sinner".

Dov Lipman found himself serving as an intermediary between the group and the Knesset speaker's office during the ensuing back-and-forth.

Dov Lipman has been very supportive of the Polish government and its history policy, which focuses on highlighting the story of Polish Righteous Among the Nations.

Dov Lipman publicly expressed his appreciation for the Redemptorist priest Tadeusz Rydzyk, the founder of Poland's Radio Maryja, and was a keynote speaker at the Remembrance and Hope ceremony that Rydyzk organized in November 2017 in Torun.

Dov Lipman was attacked for his support for Rydzyk in the Israeli media as the "useful idiot" of Rydzyk, but defended himself rejecting that accusation, arguing that he had "educated myself on all sides of the equation, and made a very deliberate decision in complete consonance with Israel's foreign affairs policy".