Prominent Israeli rabbi mourned by thousands at funeral

JERUSALEM (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of people have participated in the funeral of a prominent ultra-Orthodox rabbi in the central Israel city of Bnei Brak. Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky was one of the most influential scholars in the country’s religious community. He died Friday at the age of 94. He was one of the few remaining leaders of the ultra-Orthodox community in Israel born before the Holocaust. Kanievsky was buried on Sunday in Bnei Brak, the predominantly ultra-Orthodox city east of Tel Aviv where he lived.