Dovid Shmidel

Dovid Shmidel^[1] (also spelled Dovid Schmidel; Hebrew: דוד שמידל; 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.^[3]

Rabbi Dovid Shmidel דוד שמידל
Dovid Shmidel, 2014
Personal life
Born	(1934-04-02) April 2, 1934 (age 91) Vienna
Children	8
Occupation	Rabbi
Religious life
Religion	Judaism
Denomination	Orthodox Judaism
Residence	Bnei Brak

Shmidel heads a kolel in Komemiyut for tens of married men who live in Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh, and other places, but they stay all week at the kolel and only go home for Shabbat. Shmidel delivers shiurim once or twice a week.^[3]

He was born in Vienna^[2] on April 2, 1934. In 1939, at age 5, he moved with his family to Mandatory Palestine. He studied at the Slabodka yeshiva and later at Kollel Chazon Ish in Bnei Brak under Rabbi Gedaliah Nadel.^[3] He also studied under Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapiro.^{[citation needed]}