The Tzaddik of Yavniel, HaGaon Rav Eliezer Shlomo Shick ZT�L was niftar in Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York City. Rav Shick was hospitalized about a week ago during a visit to NY and diagnosed with being in the last stage of leukemia.
The levaya will take place in Eretz Yisrael on Sunday, beginning from the niftar�s beis medrash in his community of Yavniel.
(YWN � Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Baruch dayan haEmes
BD”E. Was he the brother of the late Rav of K”K of Tokay (E 7 Street) and the son of the famous Talmid Chochom, the Tokay Rav, who was hand-picked by the Divrei Yoel to head his Kollel in Yerushalayim?
yes
Also einikel of alte Rav Schick.
BDE
Anyone know how old he was Niftar/
May his neshama have an aliya