Shas party urges prayers for Beersheba chief rabbi, who is hospitalized with infection

By Sam Sokol 28 June 2024, 12:37 pm

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Rabbi Yehuda Deri (R), chief rabbi of the southern city of Beersheba, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on December 12, 2012. (Yoav Ari Dudkevitch / FLASH90)

The ultra-Orthodox Shas party issues a public call for prayers for Rabbi Yehuda Deri, the chief rabbi of Beersheba and the brother of Shas chairman Aryeh Deri, who is currently in hospital with a leg infection.

Yehuda Deri’s situation “continues to be very difficult and he needs much mercy from heaven,” says the statement, issued in the name of Aryeh Deri’s wife Yaffa, calling for women to pray with “tears and supplications for his complete recovery” while lighting Shabbat candles this evening.