Overview
- Large crowds attended his funeral in Bnei Brak and Jerusalem, where eulogies were delivered in Yiddish at his request.
- He died at 92 and was praised by Israeli minister Meir Porush as a guardian of burial sanctity.
- He led Asra Kadisha, a group that mobilizes to halt digs, construction, or autopsies when they may disturb Jewish graves.
- His activism began in the 1950s and included a 1979 arrest during protests over alleged grave disturbance at the Har Shenan military site.
- Beyond activism, he ran the Mesivta d’Rabbi Yochanan kollel in Tiberias and later Komemiyut and worked on the Shabsi Frankel Rambam and Talmud editorial projects.