Deletion of Joe Lobenstein

Comment: Disclosure: Author of the article)  Not because he was mayor of Hackney but because he was the only non-Labour councillor in Hackney from the mid 1970s until the late 1980s, because he got an MBE for this, because he was the leader of the Tory group in Hackney until 1999, because he was elected four times in a row when no previous mayor had been elected for more than two years, because he was a crucial figure in the post-Trotter Hackney landscape, because he is the public face of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in the UK, because he was the first ultra-Orthodox mayor elected outside of Israel and there may be a couple of other reasons too.  This is not an article to publicise Joe Lobenstein but a person who was as fascinating as Monty Goldman, another article I created (thanks for complying by , Apissting
Stance: keep
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Comment: His MBE, if legitimate, would certainly qualify as a significant award per . His political career (being mayor of London Borough of Hackney) also suggests notability. If everything in the article checks out and is correct, this should not be deleted
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:BIO)