Photograph depicting the author of Chazon Ish next to Rabbi Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler and Rabbi Binyamin Movshowitz, testing the students at the HaSharon yeshivah. The picture was taken in 1952, about a year before the Chazon Ish’s passing.
The HaSharon yeshivah began with a core group of only three students. The visit documented in this picture took place in Kislev 1952. The Chazon Ish arranged a public exam for the yeshivah students, and even brought along philanthropist Yaakov Halprin in order to encourage him to support the yeshivah. Three weeks later, Rabbi Movshowitz passed away, and Rabbi Edelstein was left to lead the yeshivah on his own.
Size: 9×7 cm. Very fine condition.