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Tuesday, December 12, 2017
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Nearly 100 mourners receive medical treatment at Steinman’s funeral
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleMagen David Adom paramedics and volunteers say 94 people were treated during the course of Rabbi Aharon Yehudah Leib Steinman’s funeral this afternoon in Bnei Brak.
A statement from the ambulance service says the mourners were mainly treated for fatigue and fainting. Five were taken to local hospitals for further treatment.
Hundreds of thousands of mourners attended the funeral of the leader of the Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Israel, who died earlier in the day at 104 years old.
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