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Monday, October 19, 2009

Haredi urges: Give a year of your lives to save ailing rabbi

Haaretz
An ultra-Orthodox supporter of former Sephardi chief rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, who has been hospitalized in a serious condition for more than a month, has urged the Haredi public to "donate" a year of their lives to spur the rabbi's recovery.

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