Rabbi Yitzhak Yedidiye Frenkel, Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, died Monday at age 73. He was buried in the Nachlat Yitzchak Cemetery after a memorial service at the Great Synagogue here. Frenkel served as a rabbi her for 50 years, the last 13 of them as Chief Rabbi and as president of the local rabbinical court.
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