Marking three years since the petira of HaGaon HaRav Yaakov Yosef ZT”L, an atzeres is scheduled to take place on Monday evening, 1 Iyar. Rav Yaakov was the eldest son of Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef ZT”L as well as the head of Mosdos Chazon Yaakov. The event will be held in the rav’s beis medrash, Burchov in the Bucharim area of Yerushalayim.

Among the maspidim expecting to attend are Rosh Yeshivat Kaf HaChaim HaGaon HaRav Moshe Tzadka Shlita, Rosh Yeshivat HaMekubalim Nahar Shalom HaGaon HaRav Binayahu Shmueli Shlita, Rav of the Shmuel HaNavi neighborhood HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Cohen Shlita, Rav of Makor Baruch HaGaon HaRav Aharon Yarchi Shlita, and a son HaRav HaGaon Yonasan Yosef Shlita.

The event is set to being at 6:30PM. The family and talmidim will be visiting the kever in Har Menuchos on Tuesday at 10:00.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)