The Skulener Rebbe, Rabbi Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, also known as "the elder of the rebbes" (Zaken Haadmorim in Hebrew) passed away in the United States on Monday afternoon, local time.
The rabbi had been in and out of a Brooklyn hospital in recent months. The funeral is scheduled to leave from his beit midrash in Boro Park on Tuesday morning, with burial next to his father's grave in a Monsey cemetery.