Huge crowds gather for funeral of influential Haredi rabbi.
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Thousands of people have gathered for the funeral service of Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, one of the most senior ultra-Orthodox rabbis in Israel and the spiritual leader of the Degel HaTorah Knesset faction, who died at the age of 100. Edelstein was hospitalized last week after suffering from shortness of breath. Israel's chief Ashkenazi rabbi David Lau mourned Edelstein's death, saying the rabbi "strongly and decidedly led the Jewish People even at his ripe age."
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