At least 700,000 mourners gathered in Jerusalem today for the funeral of influential ultra-orthodox Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.
Thousands of police officers were deployed to control the crowds clamouring to stand near the spiritual leader's body on the day of his death, as per Jewish tradition.
The procession - the largest in the country's history - set off at 6pm from the capital’s Geula neighborhood and finished 1km away at the Sanhedriya cemetery, where he was buried .... http://www.dailymail.co.uk
