Sephardic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar Shlita announced today that the Chief Rabbinate’s Rabbinical Council this week called on Am Yisrael to include the prayer in Shema Koleinu for rain.

The Rav Shlita stated that the tefilla should be recited in the private shmonei esrei as well as in the chazon’s repetition, stating the situation is critical and we must beseech HaKadosh Baruch Hu to send badly needed rainfall.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)