Every year, during the Passover holiday, a gathering of Sephardic Torah scholars was held at the Tamir Halls in Jerusalem, in which the Gra"a Yosef zt"l used to participate.
This year, after his passing, one of the Sephardic 'Marvetzi' businessmen - who belong to the Lithuanian 'Bnei Torah' faction - stepped into the vacuum that had been created and announced the organization of a similar gathering.
The planned conference was supposed to take place this coming Sunday at the Tamir Halls in Jerusalem, misleading Sephardic Torah scholars who thought it was a traditional conference.
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However, this morning, three prominent Sephardic yeshiva leaders issued a special letter, published on the front page of the Lithuanian newspaper Yated Ne'eman, in which they deny belonging to the gathering.
This is what the heads of the Sephardic yeshiva - the Gaon Rabbi Yaakov Hillel, Rosh Yeshiva Ahavat Shalom, the Gaon Rabbi Avraham Salim, Rosh Yeshiva Maor HaTorah, and the Gaon Rabbi Bezalel Pinhasi, Rosh Yeshiva Birkat Ephraim - wrote in an announcement they published:
""Regarding something that will be published in the public domain, regarding the gathering of Bnei Torah scholars on Sunday, Baal Taw, in the Tamir Halls of Jerusalem. We hereby announce that this was done neither with our consent nor our consent, and we do not intend to participate in this gathering.".
Following the fact that three yeshiva heads, whose participation in the conference was promised, announced that they do not intend to take part in it, it is unclear whether the conference will take place.
