Rabbi Israel Alter, the “rebbe from Gur.” was discharged from a Haifa hospital yesterday fully recovered from emergency surgery he underwent two weeks ago. The 70-year-old Hassidic leader will spend the rest of the summer at a resort on Mt. Carmel.
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