[Video below.] Over a half million people are attending the levaya of Chacham Ovadiah Yosef in Yerushalayim.
The maspidim included Rav Shmuel Auerbach, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Maalos Hatorah; Rav Reuven Elbaz, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Ohr Hachaim; Rav Avraham Yosef, rov of Cholon and son of the niftar; Rav Yisrael Meir Lau, former chief rabbi of Israel; Rav David Yosef, son of the niftar; and Rav Yitzchak Yosef, Sefardic chief rabbi of Israel and son of the niftar.
Rav Yaakov Addes led the crowd in reciting Kabbolas Ohl Malchus Shomayim.
Click below for a video clip from the levaya:
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{Matzav.com Israel News Bureau}