The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 5th, 2001
Rabbi Eliezer Shach
Orthodox Jewish leader
Monday, November 5, 2001
Jerusalem -- Rabbi Eliezer Shach, a political kingmaker and a religious icon who declared a cultural war on Israel's majority secular Jews, died early Friday in a Tel Aviv hospital, doctors and family members said. He was 107.
Spiritual leader of a powerful branch of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jews, Shach parlayed the votes of his followers into political power far beyond their numbers.
Although he did not oppose Israeli concessions for peace with the Palestinians, he usually instructed his representatives in parliament to t...
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