Large number of emergency responders to be stationed along procession route; chief Sephardic rabbi says it's a 'duty' to attend service for Shalom Cohen, set to start at 2 p.m.
JERUSALEM (AP) Shalom Cohen, a prominent rabbi and spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas political party, has died. He was 91. Cohen was born in Jerusalem to a prestigious religious rabbi and headed a Jewish seminary before joining the newly formed Shas party in the 1980s.