HaGaon HaRav Nissim Karelitz Shlita is reportedly connected to a respirator after his condition took a sharp turn for the worse. The elderly gadol was transported to Mayanei HaYeshua Hospital in Bnei Brak earlier in the week and underwent complicated surgery to clear an intestinal block. He was reportedly doing well following the difficult surgery and later reports, on 16 Adar I 5774 reported the 88-year-old Torah giant was showing significant signs of improvement.

The word from the Bnei Brak Hospital earlier tonight is the rav’s condition is “very serious” and he is connected to a respirator. His family is at his bedside as his condition deteriorated rapidly.

The tzibur is urged to be mispallel for מרן רבי שמריהו יוסף ניסים בן בתיה בתוך חולי ישראל

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)