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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 426

Gershon Edelstein

Then-public security minister Omer Barlev attends a Labor faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on May 16, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
June 4, 2023, 7:41 pm
Following Haredi boycott, Angel Bakeries apologizes for chairman’s Bnei Brak protest
Ex-minister Omer Barlev, now executive of company, pays condolence call to family of Rabbi Gershon Edelstein and delivers personal apology letter over incident
By Canaan Lidor
Thousands attend the funeral of Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, head of the Ponevezh Yeshiva, and spiritual leader of the Degel HaTorah party in Israel, in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish city of Bnei Brak, on May 30, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 31, 2023, 2:14 pm
Daily Briefing May 31: Power vacuum among ultra-Orthodox as 100-year-old leader dies
Zman Yisrael editor Biranit Goren on surprising lack of successor to Rabbi Gershon Edelstein; religion reporter Canaan Lidor on explosive Christian prayer event at Western Wall
By ToI Staff
Mourners attend the funeral of Rabbi Gershon Edelstein at the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak on May 30, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)
May 30, 2023, 7:35 pm
‘Like Moses’: Hundreds of thousands attend funeral for Rabbi Gershon Edelstein
Many elbow their way to touch the stretcher carrying the late Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox leader to his final resting place in Bnei Brak
By Canaan Lidor
Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, head of the Ponevezh Yeshiva, seen in his home in the ultra orthodox Jewish town of Bnei Brak, on May 20, 2021. (Yaakov Naumi/FLASH90)
May 30, 2023, 6:07 pm
Followers of Rabbi Gershon Edelstein honor late Haredi leader’s pragmatic devoutness
Seculars celebrate the moderate politics of the leader of the Lithuanian stream of ultra-Orthodoxy in Israel, while his students recall his compassionate approach to education
By Canaan Lidor
Thousands gather around the body of Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, head of the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, on May 30, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)
May 30, 2023, 1:25 pm
Police close roads as hundreds of thousands gather for Edelstein’s Bnei Brak funeral
Masses converge on Tel Aviv suburb as prominent Haredi spiritual leader laid to rest
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, head of the Ponevez Yeshiva, at his home in Bnei Brak, December 19, 2017. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)
May 30, 2023, 12:09 pm
Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, an architect and guardian of Haredi-secular relations
Despite focusing on ultra-Orthodox education, Edelstein found himself at political helm of Ashkenazi Jewry where he championed coexistence and pragmatism
By Canaan Lidor
Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, head of the Ponevez Yeshiva seen at his home after lightning the Hanukkah candles on the fourth night of Hanukkah, in Bnei Brak, December 5, 2018. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)
May 30, 2023, 10:22 am
Gershon Edelstein, leading Haredi Ashkenazi rabbi, co-existence advocate, dies at 100
Rabbi was head of non-Hasidic Lithuanian Haredi community, with hundreds of thousands of followers, head of Ponevezh Yeshiva and spiritual guide of United Torah Judaism party
By Canaan Lidor and Carrie Keller-Lynn
Protesters push strollers carrying small coffins in a rally outside the IDF Induction Center on May 4, 2023. (Mothers at the Front)
May 4, 2023, 11:54 am
Ayalon blocked, mothers rally at induction center in protests of overhaul, inequality
Demonstrations focused on social equality held nationwide, at ministers’ homes, religious institutions; mothers group with baby coffins protests bill to exempt all Hardim from IDF
By Jeremy Sharon
Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Shalom Cohen speaks during a campaign event of the Shas party in Holon on September 11, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)
June 21, 2022, 11:36 am
A year out of power, Haredim hail government’s downfall, credit divine intervention
In statements and newspaper headlines, ultra-Orthodox rabbis and politicians rejoice as one of the few coalitions in recent decades that didn’t include them falls apart
By Judah Ari Gross
Rabbi Gershon Edelstein at his home in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak on January 4, 2022. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)
May 29, 2022, 5:11 pm
Senior ultra-Orthodox rabbi blasts Jewish visits to Temple Mount, Flag March
Gershon Edelstein brands Jerusalem Day parade ‘unnecessary and dangerous’ in meeting with Haredi lawmakers
By ToI Staff
Men gather during the funeral ceremony of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky in the city of Bnei Brak, on March 20, 2022 (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
March 20, 2022, 4:02 pm
‘Unparalleled in his generation’: Rabbi Kanievsky laid to rest in massive funeral
Hundreds break through police barriers into Bnei Brak cemetery as Haredi leader is interred, but event passes without major unrest; medics treat a few dozen people
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky in the northern Israeli city of Safed, February 26, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)
November 30, 2021, 11:01 am
Top ultra-Orthodox rabbis urge against mixed-gender prayer plaza at Western Wall
Rabbis Kanievsky and Edelstein lament ‘intention to desecrate the sanctity’ of the site, call on followers to ‘do everything’ to prevent ‘disgrace in the holy place’
By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men dance at the end of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, at the Western Wall, in the Old City of Jerusalem on June 9, 2019. (Aharon Krohn/Flash90)
May 16, 2021, 3:00 pm
Citing danger, top Haredi rabbis urge avoiding visits to Western Wall on Shavuot
Chaim Kanievsky and Gershon Edelstein, leading figures in the Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox community, warn against endangering oneself at Old City holy site, or ‘goading’ the ‘haters’
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, head of the Ponovitz Yeshiva seen during a morning prayer at his home in Bnei Brak, February 15, 2021. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
March 11, 2021, 8:40 am
Anti-vaxxer attempts to attack top ultra-Orthodox rabbi at his home
Alleged assailant arrested after seeking out Gershon Edelstein, 97, who has encouraged immunization, and trying to assault him; family members fend him off
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky in the northern Israeli city of Safed, February 26, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)
October 11, 2020, 11:14 pm
Rabbi Kanievsky orders Haredi boys schools to reopen, then rescinds his decision
Top ultra-Orthodox leader, himself sick with COVID, backtracks on ruling that defied national virus rules; reportedly came under pressure to rethink from Ponevezh Yeshiva head
By ToI Staff
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