Rabbi Eliezer Berland, who is serving a prison term, underwent an emergency surgical procedure earlier this week. According to a Kikar Shabbos News report, the rabbi on Tuesday 18 was recuperating, isolated on the sixth floor of Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital with over 20 police outside his door. The Chief of the Israel Prison Authority also made a visit to consult with physicians towards ascertaining when the rabbi can be released by to prison.

Followers of the rav were mispallel at Kever Rochel while he was undergoing the procedure.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)