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Sunday, January 31, 2021
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Sunday, January 31, 2021
Rabbi Yitzhok Scheiner, 98, dies of COVID during mass funeral of fellow top rabbi
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleRabbi Yitzhok Scheiner, 98, head of the Kamenitz yeshiva in Jerusalem and Israel’s oldest Haredi yeshiva head, dies of COVID-19 at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital.
The announcement comes during the funeral of Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik, 99, who had been the oldest yeshiva head until yesterday, when he also succumbed to the coronavirus.
The US-born Scheiner was a member of the rabbinical panel leading the Degel HaTorah non-Hasidic Lithuanian faction of the United Torah Judaism party.
אבל כבד וטרגדיה בעולם התורה: נפטר כעת זקן ראשי הישיבות מרן הגאון רבי יצחק שיינר זצ"ל (98) לאחר שנדבק בנגיף הקורונה. כיהן כראש ישיבת קמניץ, וחבר במועצת גדולי התורה. pic.twitter.com/CSw1gxjn67
— אבי רבינא Avi Ravina (@AviRabina) January 31, 2021
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