Global Courant 2023-05-31 04:48:47
STORY: The men dressed in traditional ultra-Orthodox clothing came to this ultra-Orthodox city for the funeral of Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, a spiritual leader of the United Torah Judaism party who is part of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition.
Police closed streets in and around Bnei Brak, including part of a highway to regular traffic, to transport the large buses that brought mourners into the city.
Edelstein was born in Russia, near the border with Belarus, and emigrated in 1934 to what was then British-administered Palestine.
