Obituary: Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, 94, Revered Torah Authority
Automobile traffic was shut down in much of central Israel on March 20 as hundreds of thousands of mourners traveled from around the nation by bus and train to Bnei Brak as Rabbi Shmaryahu Yosef Chaim Kanievsky, one of the generation’s leading Lithuanian Torah scholars, was laid to rest. He passed away at his home in Bnei Brak on Shushan Purim (March 18). He was 94 years old.