Rav Asher Tannenbaum Z”L, 72, who served as the executive director of the Vaad Yeshivos, was niftar in Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital following a pneumonia that led to cardiac complications.

Rav Tannenbaum also served as rav of Givat Shaul, Yerushalayim and mora d’asra of the Mishkan Babad Shul in that neighborhood.

The levaya is set to begin from his home on Sunday afternoon, 16 Shevat 5773.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)