Funeral services were held here yesterday for Rabbi Yehuda Zvi Brandwein, head of the Kol Yehuda Yeshiva and of the religious services department of Histadrut, Israel’s labor federation, who died at the age of 66. Rabbi Brandwein, a native of Safed, was the author of several scholarly works but refused to occupy a rabbinical pulpit for pay. He earned his living as a building worker until 1957 when he was named to the Histadrut post which carried no salary. Several months ago he transferred the Kol Yehuda Yeshiva from Tel Aviv to East Jerusalem.
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