The late Rabbi Moshe (Morris) Talansky, a Jewish-American businessman who was one of the key witnesses in the trial of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, has died at the age of 92.
Talansky was investigated in the money envelopes affair, in which Olmert was convicted of receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in funds during the periods in which he served as mayor of Jerusalem and as Minister of Industry, Trade and Industry.
Talansky was born in 1933 in the Brooklyn borough of New York to Rabbi David and Rebecca Talansky, immigrants from Russia. In the 1950s he studied at Yeshiva University and was ordained to the rabbinate.
Talansky lived in Woodmere, Long Island, New York, and also had a home in the Shaarei Chesed neighborhood of Jerusalem. He was the director and owner of the company "Global Resource Group Ltd," which he founded in 1998 in New York.
He was a businessman who, among other things, worked to raise donations for Jewish organizations, and served as chairman of the American Friends of Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.
His funeral took place tonight - the end of Shavuot, at midnight, at the 'Eretz HaChaim' cemetery in Beit Shemesh.
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