‘A great man’: Rivlin mourns passing of Rabbi Eckstein

President Reuven Rivlin eulogizes Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein as a “great man, a great Jew and a great Zionist.”

Earlier this evening, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, the charity he founded over 35 years ago, said Eckstein, 67, died at his home in Jerusalem. Media reports said he died of heart failure.

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