Tens of Thousands At Rav Elyashiv's Levaya

Some 250,000 people mourned the death of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv at his Jerusalem funeral on Wednesday night, July 18 2012, according to police estimates. Rav Elyashiv, the leading rabbi of the Ashkenazi non-hassidic haredi community, died on Wednesday afternoon, age 102, at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center. The funeral procession set out from the rabbi's residence in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood and made its way to Har Hamenuchot cmetary in Givat Shaul. In accordance with Elyashiv’s wishes, eulogies were not given during the funeral procession and ceremony, but tehillim were recited by the mourners.  Click Here For Photos