He enlisted in the IDF through the Hesder Mercaz program and served for eight months in the Armored Corps.

In the years 1992 to 1994 he served as rabbi in the national religious community and yeshiva dean in Antwerp, Belgium.

[2] From 2015 to 2018, he served as co-chair of Ohr Torah Stone institutes alongside Rabbi Shlomo Riskin.

[3] He also promotes opening up kashrut supervision in Israel to private initiatives in order to force the rabbinate to improve.

[4] Rabbi Stav approves of married men wearing a wedding ring, especially if the wife requests it, even though this is not a Jewish custom.

“Among those who go to study and work in places that are mixed for men and women, it is right and proper to make it a custom that they wear the ring on their finger, to remind them and their environment of their commitment to their wives, and to avoid misunderstandings and unpleasantness.”[5]