Baruch Dov Povarsky

Rabbi Baruch Dov Povarsky, often referred to as Rabbi Berel Povarsky, is the rosh yeshiva of the Ponovezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, Israel, alongside Rabbi Gershon Edelstein.
Biography.
Rabbi Povarsky was born in 1931 in Kletsk. He was the son of Rabbi Dovid Povarsky who, in 1941 (when Baruch Dov was ten years old), moved their family to Mandatory Palestine; he was soon appointed rosh yeshiva of the Ponovezh Yeshiva. Rabbi Baruch Dov Povarsky began teaching in the Ponevezh Yeshiva in 1953, and later was appointed the rosh yeshiva.