Wealthy NY family buries matriarch in Israel, breaks Health Ministry rules
The family, identified as wealthy Bukharan Jews involved in real estate and diamonds, paid nearly $200,000 to transport the body of their 70-year-old mother to Israel on a private plane.
Chevra Kadisha workers wearing protective clothes, carry the body of a patient died from complications of Coronavirus (COVID-19) infection, at the Shamgar Funeral Home in Jerusalem on April 1, 2020(photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90)ByMARCY OSTER/JTA
