Rabbi Yisroel Shalom Yosef Friedman, head of the Ahavat Shalom hesder yeshiva in Netivot, who passed away Monday at the age of 94, will be laid to rest in the Rozhin Rebbes' portion of the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery in Givatayim at 11:30 pm.
Rabbi Ben Shalom was a descendant of a family of Hasidic rebbes and brother-in-law of the previous Admor of Vizhnitz. At an advanced age he entered the academic world, wrote a doctorate in history and served as a lecturer at Tel Aviv University and Ben Gurion University.
