Son of the actor, Haim Topol, commented on his father's difficult health condition.
"It seems as if he is in his last hours, the whole family is around him here at home - the children, the grandchildren. All his loved ones are around him," said son Omar in an interview with News 12.
Topol is best known for playing the lead role of Tevye, in the musical Fiddler on the Roof, both on stage and in the film version.