Board of Deputies vice-president Jonathan Arkush has announced he will stand in the organisation’s presidential election in May.
Mr Arkush, who has served as chair of the Board’s defence and group relations division for the past six years, said he had the “extensive experience” necessary for the top job.
He follows fellow vice-president Alex Brummer in declaring his candidacy. Mr Brummer announced in December that he would fight to be president.
Mr Arkush, a commercial property lawyer at London’s 11 Stone Buildings chambers, said his current Board roles “have given me extensive experience in combatting antisemitism, warding off attacks on shechita and brit milah and fighting the obsessive hostility directed at the state of Israel.
