Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, an architect and guardian of Haredi-secular relations

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/rabbi-gershon-edelstein-an-architect-and-guardian-of-haredi-secular-relations/

As the celebrated spiritual leader of Ashkenazi Haredi Jewry, Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, who died Tuesday at the age of 100, was a major advocate for compromise and coexistence at a time of growing estrangement between religious and secular Israelis.