I’ve noticed that, for a while now, whenever the Gedolei Yisroel gather together, that HaRav Aaron Schechter and the Novominsker Rebbe shlita generally sit next to each other (in the center, surrounded by the other Gedolim shlita.) Is there any particular reason for this arrangement?
I know that the Novominsker Rebbe was a talmid of HaRav Yitzchok Hutner ztvk’l in Yeshiva Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin. But are these two Gedolim especially personally close to each other? Or is it, simply, that they are considered the senior Gedolim in Chutz La’Aretz today.