Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans is a Sepharic Hasidic rabbi who leads Lev Tahor, a small settlement of a dozen families residing in the Laurentian mountains in Quebec. He is a former citizen of the State of Israel, but after claiming that his life was being threatened he was granted refugee status in Canada. He authored a polemic against Zionism called Derech Hatzalah or The Way to Salvation.