Funeral in Israel of leader of Orthodox Jews who died aged 104

Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman, the spiritual leader of Israel's non-Hassidic ultra-Orthodox Jews of European extraction and one of the country's most influential and powerful rabbis, has died at the age of 104.

Shteinman was hospitalized several weeks ago as soon as brusqueness of breath and passed away abet on concerning Tuesday.

Hundreds of thousands took allocation in his funeral procession in the central Israeli ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak and police blocked major highways and roads concerning the cemetery.

Emergency medical facilities concerning hand to promise behind the flood of people clamoring to acquire a near see.



Large crowds of orthodox Jews have gathered for the funeral of Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman in the Israeli city of Bnei Brak



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