Rabbi Yehoshua Bachrach, noted author and educator, passed away this morning in Haifa at the age of 88. He was awarded the Israel Prize for Torah Literature for the year 5757 (1997), mainly in recognition for his several books on Bible study. Rabbi Bachrach ran the Aliya Institution that took in many Holocaust survivor children. He will be buried at 5 PM this afternoon in Har HaMenuchot in Jerusalem.