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Article: Rabbi Eliezer Shach, political rabbi dies, aged 107
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- November 2, 2001
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JACK KATZENELL, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
11-02-2001
Dateline: JERUSALEM
Rabbi Eliezer Shach, a political kingmaker and a religious icon who declared a cultural war on Israel's majority secular Jews, died early Friday in a Tel Aviv hospital, doctors and family members said. He was 107.
Spiritual leader of a powerful branch of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jews, Shach parlayed the votes of his followers into political power far beyond their numbers.
Though he did not oppose Israeli concessions for peace with the Palestinians, he usually instructed his representatives in parliament to team up with hawkish governments, friendlier to the religious desires of his camp. Several times he ...
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Article: Israeli hawk Rabbi Shach dies
The Independent - London;
November 3, 2001 ;
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...RABBI ELIEZER SHACH, spiritual leader of a powerful branch of Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jews who declared a cultural war on the majority secular Jews, died yesterday in a Tel Aviv hospital, aged ...
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