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17:40 IL: Hadassah Hospital’s Professor Yaakov Naparstek, who is the hospital’s Chairman of Medicine, spoke to the press on Tuesday, 20 Tishrei 5774 at 16:00, providing an update on the condition of Maran HaGaon HaRav Chaim Ovadia Yosef Shlita.

When asked “Is he is in immediate life-threatening danger?” the professor explained “yes, he is”, but discounted the word immediate.

The senior physician spoke of the failure of a number of the body’s major systems.

The tzibur is urged to continue being mispallel for
מרן רבי חיים עובדיה יוסף בן גורג’יה לרפואה שלימה בתוך שאר חולי ישראל

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(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)