Rabbi Yisrael Zev Gustman

A Talmudic scholar and dayan in Vilna during World War II, Rabbi Yisroel Zev Gustman was known for his mastery of Talmudic methodology and served as rosh yeshiva of the Netzach Yisroel yeshiva in Vilna from 1935 until the Nazi occupation. After surviving the war, he relocated to the United States and later to Israel, where he established the Netzach Yisroel–Vilna Ramilles Yeshiva in Jerusalem, training a new generation of scholars and serving as a respected halachic authority until his death.