Gamaliel II

Alleged site of the grave of Rabban Gamliel in Yavneh known as the Mausoleum of Abu Huraira. A Hebrew travel guide dated between 1266 and 1291 mentioned a tomb of Rabbi Gammliel in Yavne that is used as a Muslim prayer house[1]
Another view of the tomb in Yavneh

Rabban Gamaliel II (also spelled Gamliel; Hebrew: רבן גמליאל דיבנה; before c. 80–c. 118) was a rabbi from the second generation of tannaim. He was the first person to lead the Sanhedrin as nasi after the fall of the Second Temple in 70 CE.

He was the son of Shimon ben Gamaliel, one of Jerusalem's foremost men in the war against the Romans,[2] and grandson of Gamaliel I. To distinguish him from the latter he is also called Gamliel of Yavne.[3]

  1. ^ טרגן, חנה; Taragan, Hana (2000). "Baybars and the Tomb of Abu Hurayra/Rabban Gamliel in Yavneh / הכוח שבאבן: ביברס וקבר אבו-הרירה/רבן גמליאל ביבנה". Cathedra: For the History of Eretz Israel and Its Yishuv / קתדרה: לתולדות ארץ ישראל ויישובה (97): 65–84. JSTOR 23404643.
  2. ^ Josephus, Bellum Judaicum iv. 3, 9, Vita 38
  3. ^ Chisholm 1911, p. 434.