HaGaon HaRav Tzvi Siman Tov, Rosh Yeshivas Ohr Hatorah, among the rabbonim of Yeshivat Chazon Ovadia and the Mora D’asra of former Jewish community of Afghanistan, remains hospitalized in an intensive care unit with a serious case of pneumonia.

The rav has been in an intensive care unit for about three weeks, in Mayanei HaYeshua Hospital in Bnei Brak, where he is being treated for pneumonia.

The rav founded Yeshivas Ohr Hatorah in Bnei Brak and headed it for thirty years. In addition, he gives shiurim in Yeshivat Chazon Ovadia.

Due to the seriousness of his condition, on last Thursday, there were an atzeres tefilla with hundreds attending, hosted in the yeshiva in Bnei Brak.

The tzibur is asked to be mispallel for Tzvi Matisyahu ben Rivka for a refuah shleima bsoch cholei yisrael.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)