Mourners attend the funeral of Rabbi Yerachmiel Gershon Edelstein, a spiritual leader of ultra-Orthodox Judaism, at the Ponevezh Yeshiva religious school in the predominantly-Orthodox Jewish central Israeli city of Bnei Brak on May 30, 2023. Rabbi Edelstein died on May 30 at the age of 100. Edelstein succeeded the influential rabbi Chaim Kanievsky as the head of the Council of Torah Sages in March 2022. The institution steers the United Torah Judaism party, which is part of Israel's governing coalition. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)