YWN regrets to inform you of the petirah of Rebbetzin Zelda Baila Alpert A”H, who was Niftar early this morning. The rebbetzin was the daughter of Hagaon HaRav Chaim Pinchos Scheinberg zt”l, the Rosh Yeshiva of Torah Ohr in Yerushalayim, and was the wife of Hagaon HaRav Nissan Alpert zt”l, a talmid of the late Posek Hador, Hagaon HaRav Moshe Feinstein zt”l who served as the rav of Agudas Yisroel of Long Island, and as the Rosh Kollel Yadin Yadin of RIETS. Rebbetzin Alpert’s levaya is scheduled to take place at 10:45 am Thursday at Agudas Yisroel of Long Island, 1121 Sage Street in Far Rockaway, NY. The Kevura will be held in Eretz Yisroel. Tehi zichrah baruch. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

A terrible tragedy occurred early Monday morning in the Chareidi community in the southern Israeli town of Netivot when six-year-old Yosef Naim, z’l, couldn’t be woken up from his sleep. Yosef, z’l, was suffering from a high fever in recent days and apparently lost consciousness overnight Sunday. His parents called for help and paramedics rushed to his home and performed resuscitation techniques for forty minutes before evacuating him to the hospital while continuing resuscitation. His death was determined at the hospital. The cause for his death is unclear. Yosef, along with his father and siblings, contracted COVID about a month ago and has been suffering from fever and vomiting since.

YWN regrets to inform you of the petirah of Rebbetzin Chana Shaindel Kaplan A”H, the wife of Harav Naftali Kaplan, Rosh Yeshivas Bais Hatalmud. Rebbetzin Kaplan was the daughter of R’ Shabsi Frankel Z”L, whose life’s work included the reprinting of the Rambam, as well as numerous other ambitious projects that continue to revolutionize the olam hatorah. Levaya details will be posted when available. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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Thousands of people gathered at the levaya of Dr. Moshe Feldman Z”L in Crown Heights today, paying their last respects to the beloved doctor who served as physician to the Lubavitcher Rebbe ZT”L, his Rebbitzen A”H, and thousands of Lubavitcher chasidim over the course of decades. Dr. Feldman z”l is survived by his children, Dovid and Chanan of Crown Heights, Sarah Shemtov of Riverdale, and Rivka Nussbaum of Monsey. Yehi zichro Baruch. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

YWN regrets to inform you of the petirah of HaRav Shmaryahu Shulman, a talmid chochom muflag, mechaber seforim, and early talmid of both Rav Yitzchok Ruderman and Rav Aharon Kotler. Rav Shulman was born and raised in New York, learning in Yeshiva Torah Vodaath as a child, before going on to learn under the tutelage of Rav Yitzchok Ruderman at Ner Yisroel, where he received semicha, followed by learning under Rav Aharon Kotler in BMG. The mechaber of numerous seforim and renowned for his brilliance and vast knowledge of Torah, Rav Shmaryahu served as rav in several shtellars over the course of nearly 70 years. In recent years, Rav Shmaryahu moved to Lakewood, residing in The Lakewood Courtyard. The levaya will take place at 2 PM at the Weinstein Funeral Chapel at 1153 Coney Island Ave.

Mrs. Yaffa Wallis, a’h, the wife of Rabbi Yosef Wallis, the head of the kiruv organization Arachim and protagonist of the book Incredible, passed away on Friday at the age of 74. She grappled with a serious illness in recent years and underwent much suffering before passing away at her home in Ra’anana. The nifteres, who was born in Germany, was an incredible ba’alas chessed and supported her husband in his kiruv activities over many years. The levaya took place on Motzei Shabbos and the nifteres was buried in the Segulah beis kevaros in Petach Tikva. Yehi Zichra Baruch. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)

HaGaon HaRav Shlomo Fischer, z’tl, Rosh Yeshivas Itri, one of the greatest talmidei chachamim and marbitzei haTorah of our generation, passed away on Thursday at the age of 90 at Shaarei Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem. HaGaon Rav Shlomo Yehonasan Yehudah Fischer, z’tl, was born in Yerushalayim. As a bochur, he learned in Yeshivas Mir and was the talmid of Rosh Yeshivah HaGaon Eliezer Yehudah Finkel, z’tl. He married his wife Leah, a’h, the daughter of HaGaon HaRav Eliezer Dovid Brand, z’tl, and she was moser nefesh her entire life to allow her husband to learn and be marbitz Torah. HaRav Fischer would spend his entire week in the yeshivah in Beis Safafa and only come home for Shabbos, while she took care of the children alone. She passed away in 2017.

Reb Yosef Ben-Gaon, z’l, the head of the tiny Jewish community in Alexandria, Egypt passed away recently at the age of 69, Kan News reported. Ben-Gaon davened at the Eliyahu Hanavi shul which was renovated in recent years by the Egyptian government. The magnificent Eliyahu Hanavi shul was closed in 2016 after the roof in the women’s section collapsed. In 2017, the Egyptian Antiquities Authority Ministry approved a $4 million renovation plan which was completed in 2020. It now has enough seats for 700 mispallelim, which of course remain empty, and is considered one of the largest shuls in the Middle East.

The body of Yanai Rimon, z’l, who was swept away in a waterfall in Mexico on Wednesday was found on Motzei Shabbos. “The Rimon family announces with unbearable grief that beloved Yanai’s body has been found in recent hours in Mexico,” a statement from the family said. “Yanai, 25, is the second of four children of Nirit and Dori Rimon of Sderot. Yanai was reported missing on Wednesday night when he slipped into a waterfall in a narrow area he was hiking in with his friends on the border of Mexico and Guatemala. Yanai, a child filled with light, grew up and was educated in Sderot and loved the people of his city with all his heart. He respected every person and constantly assisted others. Yanai enlisted in the elite Duvdevan unit after a year of service in the Green Village.

Aaron Feuerstein, who owned a textile mill in Massachusetts and famously continued to pay his workers even after a devastating fire, has died. He was 95. Feuerstein, the former owner of Malden Mills in Lawrence, died Thursday night of complications from a fall days before at his home in Brookline, his son Daniel Feuerstein told The Boston Globe for a story Friday. “My father lived a full life,” Feuerstein told the newspaper. “I have been overwhelmed by the outpouring of condolences from the entire Malden Mills community. The love went both ways.” Malden Mills had been a major textile factory known for its Polartec synthetic fleece fabric.