Hundreds of thousands of supporters amassed in droves for the funeral of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, a prominent figure within the ultra-Orthodox community, in Bnei Brak, Israel, on Sunday. The large ...

Attendees of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky's funeral heard long eulogies loudly bewailing the loss of a spiritual leader known to millions of religious Jews worldwide simply as “Reb Chaim.” Ultra ...

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis shut down large parts of central Israel to attend the funeral of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, an influential spiritual leader. By Patrick Kingsley JERUSALEM ...

Hundreds of thousands of people attended the funeral Sunday of a prominent ultra-Orthodox rabbi in a city in central Israel. Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, 94, one of the most influential scholars in the ...

Sunday’s funeral of a revered rabbi in Israel drew ... in Israel’s history — mourning for the Belarusian-born Chaim Kanievsky, who died Friday at age 94. Parting the huge crowd, dozens ...

Rabbi Kanievsky will be laid to rest in the Bnei Brak cemetery on Sunday afternoon. Police believe that between 700,000 and one million people will attend the funeral. Police will begin blocking ...

(photo credit: TOMER NEUBERG/FLASH90) Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky's body was buried on Sunday afternoon at his funeral, where thousands of people broke into the cemetery during the burial. Some ...

Police on Saturday said they were expecting many hundreds of thousands of people to come on Sunday to the funeral procession of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky in Bnei Brak. With multitudes converging on ...

Tens of thousands participated in the funeral procession of Rebbetzin Batsheva Kanievsky on Saturday evening. Rebbetzin Kanievsky was buried in the cemetery in Bnei Brak where seven other members ...

Up to a million Israelis are expected to attend the funeral Sunday for the revered leader of Lithuanian Jewry, Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, zt”l. The rabbi passed away on Friday at age 94, in the hour ...

was commemorated with a funeral broadcast by telephone and a graveside funeral for family members only. Kanievsky has expressed some skepticism about measures to contain the virus. In mid-March ...