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The following photos are of HaGaon HaRav Simcha HaKohen Kook, who serves as Chief Rabbi of Rehovot and the Churva Shul in Jerusalem’s Old City.

Rav Kook was visiting bnei yeshiva for Tu B’Shevat and gave them Birchas Kohanim as well as each child receiving fruit from the rav.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)