Shas’ Moetzas Gedolei Yisrael mourns the petira of Rebitzen Shulmit Hemmed ob”m, sister of HaGaon HaRav Shalom Cohen Shlita, head of the Torah Council. The nifteres was also the mother of HaRav Yaakov Hemmed of Dimona, a former CEO of the Shas affiliated Mayan Chinuch education network.

The nifteres was known as a big baalas chessed. Her husband is Mekubal HaGaon Rav Eliyahu Hemmed, the chazon in Yeshivat Nahar Shalom headed by Mekubal Rav Binayahu Shmueli Shlita, and considered among the close talmidim of Mekubal Rav Shalom Sharabi ZT”VL.

Rav Cohen is expected to sit shiva in his home in the Old City of Yerushalayim.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)