The rabbi didn't make it to the wedding on time, so modern technology came to the rescue with a car phone.

Danny Kaplan said he and his bride, Ilana de Fries, had planned an outdoor wedding Friday in the ancient port city of Jaffa, next to Tel Aviv, in Israel.They had to be married before sundown, the start of the Jewish sabbath, and as the sun began to set with no rabbi in sight, drastic action became necessary.

One of the guests happened to be Dov Shilansky, speaker of Israel's Parliament. Shilansky called a friend, Simcha Hacohen Kook, chief rabbi of Rehovoth, 12 miles away.

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Taking the speaker's word for the couple's credentials, Kook empowered a guest to conduct the ceremony, and monitored it over the phone in Shilansky's car, which was driven as close as possible to the scene of the nuptials.

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