Tonight: gravestone of Harav Ovadia Yosef zt"l laid

This evening (Monday), with the end of the shiva, the gravestone of Harav Ovadia Yosef was brought and placed on his grave in the Sanhedriya cemetery, in the presence of a handful of people .

After much efforts, photographer of Behadrey Haredim managed to locate the factory which made the gravestone of Harav Ovadia Yosef, and documented the process of its preparation, transportation and placing it in the cemetery.

The tombstone was prepared by the Jews at the Avnei Chessed factory, located in East Jerusalem.

As first reported by Behadrey Haredim, the gravestone was placed at the end of the shiva rather than at the end of shloshim, by the ruling of Harav Ovadia himself.

Harav Ovadia's tombstone is formulated without many accolades, by his will. But for some reason it said that was "he was suppressed by agony", though he was not known to suffer from a disease other than in his last days.

Version of the tombstone:

Here lies
Raban shel kol bnei hagolah
Oppressed by suffering
Maran the Rishon Letzion
Harav Ovadia Yosef zt"l
Son of R' Yaakov and Gorgia z"l
Deceased on 3rd Marcheshvan 5774

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Yabia Omer, Yechave Da'at, Chazon Ovadia, Leviat Chen, Taharat Habayit, Maor Yisrael, Halichot Olam, Taba'at Hamelech, Anaf Etz Avot, and more

May his soul be bound in the bond of life

"His soul shall rest in goodness and his descendants will inherit the land"

'בחדרי' גם ברשתות החברתיות - הצטרפו!