Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto has undergone a four-hour surgery described a “complicated” in New York City’s Lenox Hill Hospital for the removal of cancerous growths.

This is not the first time the rav has undergone surgery for the removal of such growths, but the third. His physicians recently instructed him to undergo this latest procedure.

His talmidim recited Tehillim and were mispallel while the surgery was ongoing.

His name for Tehillim is unknown at this time.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)