Sunday, 7 Tishrei: 8:20AM IL: Rabbi Mendel Deitsch, who is reportedly about 60, is out of emergency neurosurgery in Tel Hashomer Hospital in Tel Aviv, which doctors report was successful. Persons involved in the rav’s care report that “what remains is to wait and see if HKBH sends him a refuah” as his condition prior to the surgery was serious.

As reported by YWN, http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/471805/chabad-rabbi-robbed-beaten-unconscious-in-ukraine.html Rav Deitsch, an Israeli citizen and Chabad rov active in the Ukraine, was found unconscious and in serious condition on erev Shabbos R”L, a victim of a robbery and beating. He was stabilized and flown to Israel for emergency surgery.

The tzibur is asked to be mispallel for Menachem Mendel Mordechai ben Miriam bsoch kol cholei yisrael.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)