Minister of Senior Citizen Affairs (Bayit Yehudi) Uri Orbach remains in serious condition in Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Yerushalayim. He is in a medically induced coma and on a respirator in the hematological unit. Doctors report there is an ever so slight improvement in his condition, which is still described as �serious�.

As a result of being hospitalized in a non-functioning capacity for a number of weeks, Orbach has been categorized as �temporarily unavailable� and his post will now be filled by party leader Naftali Bennett.

An atzeres tefilla will be held in his behalf in the Merkaz Modi�in Shul in Modi�in with the participation of Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Dovid Lau Shlita and the chief rabbis of Modi�in.

The tzibur is asked to be mispallel for ???? ???? ?? ????? (Uri Shraga ben Penina) bsoch kol cholei am yisrael.

(YWN � Israel Desk, Jerusalem)