Up to a million Israelis are expected to attend the funeral Sunday for the revered leader of Lithuanian Jewry, Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, zt”l. The rabbi passed away on Friday at age 94, in the hour ...

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JERUSALEM (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people attended the funeral Sunday of a prominent ultra-Orthodox rabbi in a city in central Israel. Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, 94, one of the most influential ...

March 20 (UPI) --Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky was laid to rest in Israel on Sunday as mourners burst through the gates of the cemetery during the burial ceremony. An estimated 750,000 people attended the ...

Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking during Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky’s funeral, March 20, 2022. Former prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu posted the message below on his Facebook page. First, ...

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis shut down large parts of central Israel to attend the funeral of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, an influential spiritual leader. By Patrick Kingsley JERUSALEM — Hundreds of ...

Sunday’s funeral of a revered rabbi in Israel drew half a million mourners clad in traditional ultra-Orthodox garb, turning the streets of a religious suburb of Tel Aviv into a surging sea of black.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men walk in the funeral procession of rabbi Chaim Kanievsky in the Israeli city of Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv — GIL COHEN-MAGEN An estimated three quarters of a million ...

They are two Jews with extraordinary stories, and on one Sunday they jointly captured the attention of Israelis. Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelensky is the president of Ukraine. Shmaryahu Yosef Chaim ...

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky (C), seen in this file photo taken on March 20, 2019, died Friday aged 94 — MENAHEM KAHANA Powerful rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, a key figure among the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, ...

“I feel like my father died, so of course I should be at the funeral,” said one yeshiva student who traveled to the funeral. Kanievsky, who died Friday afternoon at age 94 after suffering a massive ...