Thousands fill Jerusalem streets for funerals of major haredi Orthodox rabbis January 31, 2021 4:46 pm Thousands attended the funeral of Rabbi Dovid Soloveitchik, scion of a major rabbinic dynasty, in Jerusalem Sunday morning. (Screenshot from Twitter)
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(JTA) Thousands of people gathered in Jerusalem Sunday morning to mourn Rabbi Dovid Soloveitchik, the scion of a major rabbinic dynasty.
In the afternoon, a funeral procession for another leading rabbi, Yitzhok Scheiner, again drew thousands of mourners.
The mass funerals come amid simmering tensions over the haredi sector’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both Soloveitchik, the leader of the Brisk yeshiva, who was 99 and Scheiner, the head of the Kamenitz yeshiva, who was 98, died of COVID-19.