Story

Word spread that the heilige Chazon Ish z"l was on his way to Eretz Yisrael, and Rebbi Matisyahu Shtigel z"l, a Novardoker talmid, one of the few people that really knew about him at the time, thought to bring him to Bnei Brak to be rosh yeshiva of the yeshiva he had just opened. (Side note: Bnei Brak was a "wasteland" in those days, nothing more than two shuls and one cheider.) The Chazon Ish agreed to come investigate, and would agree to move there, but said that being "rosh yeshiva" was not for him, and would rather write sefarim (but he suggested his brother-in-law the Steipler z"l, then rosh yeshiva of the Novardoker yeshiva of Pinsk, for the job, which he would take).