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As shabbos approached, people gathered by the Chofetz Chaim Yeshiva in Sanhedria Murchevet to be melave the aron of Rabbi Avrohom Ginsberg ZT”L to har hazeisim, after arriving at Ben Gurion Airport from New York.

The niftar was the Executive Director for Chafetz Chaim Rabbinical Seminary in America for over 50 years, and was the trusted assistant and aide to HaGaon Rav Henach Leibowitz ZATZAL, for more than 5 decades.

He was one of the founding members of the Vaad HaRabonim in Queens, and Rav of the Kessel Street Synagouge in Forest Hills for 57 years.

Rabbi Aryeh Zev Ginsberg of Cedarhurst, New York, Rabbi Yissochar Ginsberg from the Lower East Side, and Rabbi Dovid Chait were maspid.

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