Congratulations on your election to the presidency of the greetest Torah institution in Diaspora, the Yeshiva University. I pray for you success in leading this great center of Halacha, Judaism, and science to become the spiritual source of Jewish life to tens of thousands of our young people whose life will be devoted to Torah concepts, thus assuring survival of future generation. I particularly would ask you to institute a policy that every student must spend one year in Israel in order to absorb the atmosphere of our holy land before their graduation. With blessings from Zion, Shlomo Goren

Chief Rabbi of Israel