Eighty-five others were injured, with four people hospitalized in serious condition following a panic at the procession involving tens of thousands of people. Three people, two teens among them, remain hospitalized in serious condition with head and upper body injuries, The Times of Israel added.
Paramedic worker Nati Rosner, present at the scene of the start of the procession, told Israeli media that the gathering was seriously overcrowded, noting that as soon as the casket carrying Wosner left a local religious school, dozens of mourners fell on top of one another.
Wosner, 101, was known in Israel for being among the last religious scholars to be educated before the Holocaust. He issued a number of conservative rulings ranging from the limits of female attire to internet use.
