Interesting Recent Links - No'ah 5774

(Some of these may be a couple weeks old, but still qualifies as "recent" in my book. Sorry for the length.)

Countless articles showing people praying for Rav Hayim Ovadia Yosef Shlit"a. Here's a sampling:
Kikar - Tefillot started
YWN - Simhat Beit Hasho'eva paused for Tehillim
YWN - Many Gedolim and Askanim ask for Tefillot
Kikar - Rav Ovadia asks for Tefillot for himself
Kikar - Family asks for Tefillot after being put on respirator
Kikar - Hol Hamo'ed Tefillot at the Kotel
Kikar and Matzav - Name "Hayim" added
Kikar - Eli Yishai
Kikar - Boyaner Rebbe
Kikar - MK Miri Regev makes a Kabbala to light candles for his Refuah
YWN - Ichud Hatzalah
Kikar - Rav Aharon Zaccai Shlit"a
Kikar - Calls to break one's iphone for his Refuah
Kikar - Yeshivat Or HaHayim
YWN - Rav Hayim Amsallem
Kikar - MK Ariel Attias
Kikar and CosmicX - Merkaz Harav Yeshiva in Rav Kook's home
Kikar - Vishnitzer Rebbe Shlit"a, Tzanzer Rebbe Shlit"a, Kollel Yehave Da'at starts winter Zeman early for his Refuah. (See the Tzanzer Rebbe's Mi Sheberach here.)
YWN - Gerrer Rebbe Shlit"a too
Life in Israel recommends option #3
Matzav - Rav Yitzhak Yosef Shlit"a
Kikar - Massive Kotel gathering (more pictures here, Matzav video here, YWN video here)
Kikar - Rav Shalom Cohen Shlit"a

Kikar opinion piece - Rav Ovadia Shlit"a is the greatest Sephardic leader - relative to the generation - since Rav Yosef Karo

Mashiach is Coming links to a Behadrei article where

Members of Chabad went to the hospital to give members of the media and patients the opportunity to fulfill the mitzvah of blessing the lulav and reported that the outpouring of love that the Jewish people have shown for the Rabbi is unbelievable.

Kikar and YWN - Reports of Rav Amar being named successor by his associates were blasted by Rav Shalom Cohen Shlit"a and completely denied by Rav Amar Shlit"a

Kikar and YWN - Rav Na'im Ovadia (brother of Rav Ovadia Yosef Shlit"a) passed away in the beginning of Sukkot

Matzav - Chacham Avraham Harari-Raful zt”l

Matzav - 2 Murdered IDF Soldiers (HY"D):
Tomer Hazan
Gal Kobi

Time Magazine - For Yemen's Few Remaining Jews, Time Has Run Out

Cross-Currents - Yes, There Is Cause For Optimism

Life in Israel and Esser Agaroth - Female soldier gets called up to Torah on Simchat Torah and Hesder soldiers don't protest

Habayita - More on Fukushima

YWN - R’ Shteinman: We Should Merit Being Saved from Reshaim Like Lapid. Also, in Kikar - Rav Shteinman attacks Lapid in his Sukkah. Also, in Kikar - Rav Shteinman makes a Mi Sheberach for all of Israel except for Lapid

Kikar - Budget for foreign Yeshiva students is scrapped

Kikar - Rav Chaim Kanievsky dances with the smallest Sefer Torah in the world and that's not the Pasul one that was read on Simhat Torah in his home  (See also Matzav and YWN.)

YWN - Gedolei Hador Shlita Endorse Moshe Leon in Jerusalem Race

YWN and Matzav - Agudath Israel blasts YCT

Matzav - Oldest Siddur in Existence Discovered

Matzav - Yerushalayim Wedding Delayed Because Kohanic Chosson Had to Exit

Debka - Russia, Iran, Damascus may crank up border tensions to weaken Netanyahu’s hand in America

R' Dov Bar Leib in Mystical Paths - Geopolitics and Geulah Musings

Tomer Devorah - A Different World