JERUSALEM - Leading Israeli Kabbalist dies, was older than 104

JERUSALEM - One of the most revered Jewish holy men in Israel Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri, died on Shabbos aged more than 104-years-old.

The Sephardic rabbi was admitted to a Jerusalem hospital earlier this month after contracting pneumonia.

He is believed to have been born before 1900 in what is now Iraq. His personal physician had estimated his age as between 104 and 108.

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Almost a quarter of a million mourners from Israel and around the world gathered in Jerusalem for the funeral of Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri.