Rabbi Yitzhak Kadouri, a leading Israeli mystic died at the age of 106. Kadouri, the spiritual mentor of the powerful Sephardi religious party Shas, succumbed on Saturday to pneumonia after being hospitalized. He was considered a master of the Jewish mystical tradition known as Kabbalah.
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