Yehuda Getz

Yehuda Getz (; 1924 – 17 September 1995) was the rabbi of the Western Wall for 27 years.

Biography Yehuda Meir Getz was born in Tunis, Tunisia, in 1924. He emigrated to Israel in 1949, settling in Kerem Ben Zimra, a moshav in Upper Galilee.

Rabbinic career

After the death of his son Avner in the Six-Day War, he moved to Jerusalem's Old City.

Getz was a supporter of Excavations at the Temple Mount. In July 1981, Getz and a team of associates opened a tunnel under the Temple Mount near where he believed the Ark of the Covenant had been hidden in Solomon's Temple, directly below the Holy of Holies of the Second Temple.