HaGaon HaRav Leibel Mintzberg ZT�L was niftar in Jerusalem Shaare Zedek Hospital on Thursday morning at the age of 75 after battling a difficult illness. He was the head of the Kehillas Masmidim.

The niftar was born in Yerushalayim to Rav Elimelech Mintzberg ZT�L during the War of Liberation. His father was killed when the niftar was five-years-old, struck by a mortar rocket in the Beis Yisrael area of the capital.

Rav Mintzberg was raised in the home of HaGaon HaRav Yitzchak Reisman ZT�L, who was a Dayan and Moreh Zedek for the Eida Chareidis. He was placed at the head of the chaburos of Masmidim at the age of 16, under the leadership of Rav Avraham Leib Klein, giving lectures and mussar. He was married to Rebitzen Chana at the age of 18, the daughter of HaRav HaGaon Eliezer David Brand, learning in Kollel Kaminetz in Yerushalayim which was headed by HaGaon Rav Mordechai Elefant ZT�L.

The levaya began at 1:00PM from the Beis Medrash Masmidim in Minchas Yitzchak and kvura was at Har Menuchos.

(YWN Israel Desk � Jerusalem)