Tributes pour in for Israel Prize laureate and scholar credited with revolutionizing Talmud studies; funeral starts in Jerusalem at 2 p.m., is being livestreamed

Israel Prize laureate and scholar credited with revolutionary translation and commentary of seminal Jewish texts in 'once-in-a-millennium' achievement

At Moscow conference, Evgeny Velikhov recounts his role in helping an Israeli rabbi open the country's only official Jewish seminary in 1989