Since the news of the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham early Sunday morning, Israel has been mourning the loss of one of its greatest non-Jewish friends.

Channel 14 News journalist Yinon Magal said that he asked HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Zilberstein about reciting Kaddish for Graham.

Magal said on air during the popular The Patriots show: “I consulted with HaRav Zilberstein whether I can say Kaddish for a non-Jew. He told me to learn a Mishnah dealing with monetary laws l’illui  Graham’s neshama, and then to say Kaddish D’Rabbanan over the Mishnah.”

Magal then proceeded to read a Mishnah from Pirkei Avot: “Rebbi Yosi says: Let your friend’s money be as precious to you as your own, prepare yourself to learn Torah, for it is not your inheritance, and let all your deeds be l’sheim Shamayim.”

Afterward, the panel members joined Magal in reciting Kaddish.

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)