The Nasi of the Moetzet Chachmei HaTorah, HaGaon HaRav Shalom Cohen, was hospitalized on Monday due to a severe infection in his leg.

The Rosh Yeshivah is receiving treatment in Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital.

HaRav Cohen’s family members said that a professor who is an expert in the particular issue the Rosh Yeshivah is facing will head the treatment, assisted by the hospital staff.

The public is asked to daven for a refuah sheleimah for Rav Shalom ben Tufacha Malka b’toch shaar cholei Yisrael.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)