Rabbi Yehuda Meir Getz, the rabbi of the Western Wall for the last 27 years, died this week after a major heart attack. He was 71 years old.
Getz was buried on the Mount of Olives.
After moving from Tunisia to Israel in 1949, Getz settled in the Galilee. He served in the army, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel.
After one of his sons, a paratrooper, was killed in the battle for Jerusalem during the 1967 Six-Day War, Getz moved to the Old City and settled in the Jewish Quarter.
Getz established a yeshiva there, and took up the duties he held until his death.
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