Rav Meir Yehuda Getz Rav of the Kosel Rosh Yeshivas Beit El

Rav Meir Yehuda Getz, Rav of the Kosel and Rosh Yeshivas Beit El (1924-1995). After one of his sons, a paratrooper, was killed in the battle for Jerusalem during the 1967 Six Day War, Rav Getz moved to the Old City and settled in the Jewish Quarter. He established a yeshiva there, and took up the duties he held until his death. In July 1981 Rav Getz was constructing a new synagogue behind the Wall that would face the Temple Mount. While the construction was going on, workers accidentally discovered Warren's Gate and an open area behind it that they believed to be from the First Temple period.