More than 5,000 people from various parts of the country today participated in the funeral of Rabbi Itzhak Aizik Sher, head of the famous Slobodka. Yeshiva for 50 years, who established a similar institution of learning five years ago in the Orthodox Bnai Brak settlement here. He was 70 years old. Chief Rabbi Herzog of Israel was among the principal speakers at the funeral ceremony which took place in Bnai Brak.
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