The spiritual leader of the ultra-Orthodox Sephardic party Shas (Guardians of the Torah) died on Monday (22/8) at the age of 91. IsraelThe rabbi Salom Cohen.
Cohen was admitted last week to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital but his condition worsened on Sunday night (8/21), according to his family.
“It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of our father, our teacher and leader (…) rabbi and sage Shalom Cohen” pointed out the political leader of the party, Arieh Deri, in a statement.
“Woe to the world that has lost its leader and to the ship that has lost its captain“, he added as reported by the Athens News Agency.
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid expressed his condolences “to his family, his students and those who honor his memory.”
Shalom Cohen was chairman of the Council of Torah Sages, the highest body of Shas. This party is currently the third political force in the Knesset.
Thousands of ultra-orthodox Jews, dressed in white and black, attended Cohen’s funeral in Jerusalem in the afternoon. Also present were Israel’s two chief rabbis, David Lau and Yitzhak Yosef, as well as representatives of political parties. Many streets in the city were closed to traffic and hundreds of police officers were mobilized to maintain order, police said.
Shalom Cohen was born in 1930 in Jerusalem and succeeded Ovandia Yosef in the Shas party, who died in October 2013. He was also the head of Porat Yosef, the main Sephardic Talmud school in Jerusalem, where he had studied.
Source: News Beast
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