Overview
- Community officials said he died after pneumonia led to kidney complications following hospitalization on Tuesday night.
- His funeral was scheduled for Wednesday in London with burial at Enfield cemetery.
- Born in Vienna in 1921, he led Yeshivas Pnei Moshe in Jerusalem before returning to Europe to strengthen postwar Torah life and then settling in London.
- He founded Yeshivas HaRama and helped establish advanced learning in Britain, including a kollel for married scholars.
- His writings, including Hador Vehatekufah and the multi-volume Beis Av, documented earlier rabbinic giants, and he championed protection of Jewish cemeteries across Europe.