When his fatherinlaw, Rabbi Moshe Mordechai, died in 1933, four years after the Hebron Massacre, Rav Yechezkel was officially appointed rosh yeshiva of Hebron
१९७४ ला, गोल्डा मायरने राजीनामा दिल्यावर, यित्झाक राबिन (Yitzak Rabin) हे इस्रायलचे पाचवे पंतप्रधान झाले.