Kfar Chabad Rabbi Ashkenazi Buried in Tiberias

Rabbi Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi, the rabbi of Kfar Chabad in Israel, was buried in Tiberias on Thursday, two days after he died on his way to the city to visit a cemetery.

He was 71.

Rabbi Ashkenazi was driving on Tuesday to his father's grave for his yahrzeit, the anniversary of his death, when he felt ill and pulled his car to the side of the road.

He died shortly after being rush to Tel HaShomer hospital in Tel Aviv.

Thousands of people, including the chief rabbis of Israel, walked in the funeral procession at Kfar Chabad before Rabi Ashkenazi was buried in Tiberias.