(12 Dec 2017) Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman, the spiritual leader of Israel's non-Hassidic ultra-Orthodox Jews of European descent and one of the country's most influential and powerful rabbis, died on Tuesday. He was 104.
Shteinman was hospitalised several weeks ago with shortness of breath and passed away early on Tuesday.
Hundreds of thousands were expected to attend his noontime funeral in the central Israeli ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak and major roads were shut down in advance of the procession.
Shteinman was a long-time political kingmaker whose orders were strictly followed by his representatives in parliament.
His influence, however, far surpassed just that and he was seen as the leading voice of the entire community on many issues of religion and state.
Following the 2012 death of his predecessor, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, he was widely regarded as "Gadol Hador", or "leader of the generation.

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