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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 572

Yosef Shalom Elyashiv

Aharon Leib Shteinman is considered the leader of the non-Hasidic Lithuanian world. (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
October 24, 2013, 1:19 am
Leading Haredi rabbi, 99, attacked in his home
Aharon Leib Shteinman, head of largest Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox faction, suffers light injuries
By Lazar Berman
Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar (left) and Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger at the Western Wall in Jerusalem in April 2012 (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)
May 1, 2013, 6:40 am
Who says Israel’s chief rabbis are so powerful?
Foreign Policy for one, but few Israelis would agree on the inclusion of Shlomo Amar and Yona Metzger among the magazine’s 500 most powerful people
By Haviv Rettig Gur
An ultra-Orthodox couple at a cemetery (illustrative photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
August 7, 2012, 10:12 am
Come on dad, we’re moving: Family transfers grave because of inappropriate ‘neighbors’
Two sons secretly exhume their rabbi father’s remains eight years after his death
By Aaron Kalman
An Israeli tourist is helped as she arrives to Burgas hospital after a bus carrying Israeli tourists in the Bulgarian resort city of Burgas was blown up Wednesday, July 18, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Bulphoto Agency)
July 19, 2012, 1:19 pm
Death in many guises
Bombings rock Bulgaria and Damascus, and a rabbi’s passing rocks the ultra-Orthodox world
By Ilan Ben Zion
Throngs of ultra-Orthodox Jews attend the funeral of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv in Jerusalem on Wednesday night, July 18, 2012. (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)
July 19, 2012, 1:26 am
Hundreds of thousands attend funeral of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv
Nearly 100 people require medical aid as throngs converge on Jerusalem burial
By Ilan Ben Zion, Sam Ser and Michal Shmulovich
Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv (Yosef Avi Yair Angel/ Flash90/JTA)
July 18, 2012, 5:27 pm
Rabbi Elyashiv, a relentless Torah scholar whose strict rulings sought to resist modernity
Born into a home steeped in Jewish mysticism 102 years ago, the revered rabbi’s life led him to fierce conservatism and unbending religious insularity
By Matti Friedman
Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
July 18, 2012, 5:01 pm
Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv dies at 102
Prime Minister eulogizes ultra-Orthodox leader, praising him for his ‘ways of love for Torah and love for man’
By Ilan Ben Zion and Matti Friedman
Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, right, with President Shimon Peres in 2009. (photo credit: Yosef Avi Yair Angel/ POOL/Flash90)
June 12, 2012, 8:25 am
Prominent rabbi’s health takes turn for the worse
Doctors say Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv’s condition is critical
By Ilan Ben Zion
Illustrative: Rabbi Dov Lior speaks at a rally outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem in July 2011 (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
April 2, 2012, 3:06 pm
Academic, NGO seek to prosecute authors of book that discussed killing non-Jews
Petition to High Court claims ‘Torat Hamelech’ incites violence and sedition
By Hillary Zaken
Pri Hagalil factory in Hatzor Haglilit (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90)
February 27, 2012, 11:51 am
Workers, voters, dodgers and bikers
The plight of laid-off factory workers in the North, slaughter and referendum in Syria, plans to combat the revocation of the Tal Law, and rising gas prices all get major play
By Ilan Ben Zion
Ultra-Orthodox students pray for the speedy recovery of Rabbi Elyashiv. (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
February 19, 2012, 11:04 pm
In critical condition for weeks, top rabbi takes turn for the better
Amid prayers for his welfare by Lithuanian community, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv awakens, reacts to surroundings at Jerusalem hospital
By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox students praying for Elyashiv's health Tuesday, a few months prior to his death (photo credit:Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
February 7, 2012, 11:41 pm
Top Haredi rabbi’s condition dire, but stable
Thousands gather to pray for health of hospitalized leader of Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox community.
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