Chacham Ovadia Yosef, head of Shas’ Moetzet Chachmei Hatorah and one of the great Torah minds of the generations, was taken today to Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital, where he will be undergoing surgery for debilitating back pain he has been experiencing.
It is about three weeks since Chacham Ovadia slipped in his house at 45 Rechov Hakablan in Har Nof, Yerushalayim, after which he began suffering from severe pain.