London rabbi who died of COVID worked to end Haredi community’s isolation – Rabbi Avrohom Pinter’s sacrifice was just the last chapter of a life spent forging links between the often-isolated community in Stamford Hill and wider British society. | Israel Hayom

Rabbi Avrohom Pinter gave his life to save his neighbors.
When the British government ordered a lockdown to slow the spread of coronavirus, Pinter went door-to-door in northeast London to deliver the public health warning to the ultra-Orthodox Jews in his community. Within days, the 71-year-old rabbi had caught COVID-19 and died.
His sacrifice was just the last chapter of a life spent forging links between the often-isolated community in Stamford Hill and wider British society, whether by working with an Anglican priest to build a community center or visiting the local mosque to grieve when a gunman killed 51 Muslims in New Zealand.