Rosh Yeshivat Merkaz HaRav HaGaon HaRav Yaakov Shapira Shlita has announced that like his colleague HaGaon HaRav Shmuel Eliyahu Shlita, he plans to attend the atzeres tefilla, the Million Man Atzeres.

Vehicles with loudspeakers are made their way through certain neighborhoods of Yerushalayim earlier, instructing talmidim to follow these two prominent rabbonim and attend the event.

In the meantime, the dati leumi remains divided with HaGaon HaRav Chaim Druckman decrying the event, calling it a “Chilul Hashem” and members of Bayit Yehudi R”L are calling on gedolei yisrael shlita to apologize to the dati leumi party for taking part in the atzeres.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)