The Chief Rabbi of the city of Tiberias, Rabbi David Peretz, passed away on Friday evening, about half an hour after the start of Shabbat. He was 84.
Sources close to him said that Rabbi Peretz had suffered from poor health recently and that his medical condition deteriorated on Friday evening. Paramedics were summoned to his home at the start of Shabbat, but he passed away shortly thereafter.
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