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- Rabbi David Shalom Batzri collapsed at his Bnei Brak home and died on September 25, 2026.
- Emergency crews performed prolonged resuscitation, transported him to Sheba Medical Center, and pronounced him dead.
- He headed Yeshivat HaShalom, a leading Kabbalistic academy in Jerusalem.
- Shas party called him the “elder of the Kabbalists” and praised his support for the movement.
- Sephardic Chief Rabbi David Yosef said his father Ovadia Yosef deeply respected Batzri’s Kabbalistic knowledge.