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18 shares As the funeral is set to begin for Rabbi Yitzhok Scheiner in Jerusalem following the mass funeral of another top Haredi rabbi earlier today, police sources tell Channel 12 news they will not prevent it. A senior cop was earlier cited by the network as saying about the first funeral, attended by some 10,000 people: “Anything can be dispersed. The question is at what cost. If the police had forcefully dispersed the funeral, including by using tear gas, water cannons and clubs, it would have ended with hundreds injured among the protesters and the police. The state would not have forgotten this event.” ....
10 shares Rabbi Yitzhok Scheiner, 98, head of the Kamenitz yeshiva in Jerusalem and Israel’s oldest Haredi yeshiva head, dies of COVID-19 at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital. The announcement comes during the funeral of Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik, 99, who had been the oldest yeshiva head until yesterday, when he also succumbed to the coronavirus. The US-born Scheiner was a member of the rabbinical panel leading the Degel HaTorah non-Hasidic Lithuanian faction of the United Torah Judaism party. אבל כבד וטרגדיה בעולם התורה: נפטר כעת זקן ראשי הישיבות מרן הגאון רבי יצחק שיינר זצ ל (98) לאחר שנדבק בנגיף הקורונה. כיהן כראש ישיבת קמניץ, וחבר במועצת גדולי התורה. pic.twitter.com/CSw1gxjn67 I m proud to work at The Times of Israel I’ll tell you the truth: Life here in Israel isn’t always easy. But it s full of beauty and m ....
1,257 shares Ultra-Orthodox men attend the funeral of late Rabbi Yitzchok Sheiner, in Jerusalem, January 31, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) Thousands of people on Sunday night joined the funeral procession of a prominent ultra-Orthodox rabbi in Jerusalem who died of the coronavirus, in defiance of the lockdown rules, hours after another burial in the capital drew a massive crowd. Though officials said earlier that fewer people were expected to attend Rabbi Yitzhok Scheiner’s funeral than the 10,000 who packed the earlier funeral of another top ultra-Orthodox rabbi, footage from Jerusalem showed thousands crowding the second burial. According to Channel 13 news, some 8,000 people showed up in the capital’s Bukharim neighborhood where Scheiner, 98, was head of the Kamenitz yeshiva. ....