BNEI BRAK, Israel (Reuters) – The funeral of a revered Israeli rabbi on Sunday drew half a million mourners clad in traditional ultra-Orthodox garb, turning the streets of a religious suburb of Tel Aviv into a surging sea of black. Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, a leading authority on Jewish law, died on Friday at the age of 94 in Bnei Brak, an ultra-Orthodox city near Israel’s commercial capital. Parting the huge crowd, dozens of police formed a phalanx around the van carrying the sage’s body as the vehicle crept towards Bnei Brak’s cemetery. “(Kanievsky’s) death is a huge loss for the Jewish people,…