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A Bnei Brak rabbi passed away Friday morning at Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center in Bnei Brak as a result of a coronavirus infection, becoming Israel’s 223rd reported coronavirus fatality.

Rabbi Shlomo Meir Rosenberg, 72, had worked in the diamond industry in Ramat Gan, and is survived by his wife and ten children.

His death is the third in the family caused by the coronavirus. The rabbi’s widow, Chaya Rosenberg, lost both her mother and brother to the coronavirus in April. Chaya's mother, Hinda Nusboim, a Holocaust survivor, passed away as a result of a coronavirus infection on April 17th. Three days later, Chaya Rosenberg's brother, Rabbi Hanoch Rafael Nusboim, a staff member at the Ateret Hatorah yeshiva in Jerusalem, also passed away following a coronavirus infection. He was 63 years old.

The total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Israel is 7,023, according to Israel’s Health Ministry, with 83 patients on assisted breathing.

The number of new cases in the past 24 hours, 58, is now less than a third of the number of patients who recovered from coronavirus over the same period – 197.

Also on Friday, a 62-year-old man passed away from a coronavirus infection at the Baruch Padeh (Poriya) Medical Center in Tiberias. The man is said to have had a history of serious medical issues, and was a resident of a nursing home in Yavneel.