Aryeh Levin

And when he went, he, he, he went to Hadassah Hospital to phone to find out what's going on.

Rav Aryeh Levin, I think, was with him.

He said Rav Kook fainted when he picked up the telephone call to hear what Jews in the land of Israel being slaughtered.

The famous nineteen twenty-nine massacres all across Israel, but of course most famously in Hebron.

When a Jerusalem-born lawyer, Shmuel Tamir, was justice minister, he wanted to introduce legal abortion under specific circumstances not related to the health of the mother.

Tamir came to seek the advice and support of Rabbi Aryeh Levin, the tzaddik of Jerusalem.

who told him that abortion was halachically forbidden.

Aware that one of the rabbi's children had died of starvation, Tamir continued to press his point, saying that if so many families were impoverished, that it would be wrong for them to bring additional children into the world.