Dovid Shmidel

Dovid Shmidel[1] (also spelled Dovid Schmidel, Polish: Szmiedl; born 1934) of Bnei Brak is a rabbi and the Chairman of Asra Kadisha (the Committee for the Preservation of Gravesites).He was involved in struggles against excavations at various locations including at the Tomb of Maimonides in Tiberias in 1956 and at Israel's Highway 6;[2] as well as at the disputed tomb of Antigonus II Mattathias in East Jerusalem.[1] For an entire year, Shmidel was occupied with preserving the old Jewish cemetery in Egypt.He studied at the Slabodka yeshiva and later at Kollel Chazon Ish in Bnei Brak under Rabbi Gedaliah Nadel.Shmidel frequently consulted Rabbis Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz and Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik.
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