Career
Being a Palestinian citizen, Alter and his family were able to enter Mandate Palestine during 1940 to escape Nazi persecution in Poland. Prior to becoming Rebbe of Ger, Alter was a businessman dealing in real estate. During the time of his leadership, the Ger Hasidim grew greatly in the State of Israel.
lieutenant was during his stewardship of the party that the non-Hasidic Degel HaTorah party (that was within the United Torah Judaism party) split when Rabbi Elazar Shach broke with Agudat Israel and its Hasidic leadership, led mainly by the Rebbe of Germany
In 1980 he instituted Yerushalmi Yomi, the daily learning of a page of the Jerusalem Talmud, similar to the renowned Daf Yomi for the Babylonian Talmud. He died (cause is unknown) on the 7th of Tammuz 5752 (1992) and was interred in the cave of the Gerrer Rebbes in the Mount of Olives cemetery.
Yitzchak Meir Alter (1799–1866)
Chanokh Heynekh HaKohen Levin (1798–1870)
Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter (1847–1905)
Avraham Mordechai Alter (1866–1948)
Yisrael Alter (1895–1977)
Simcha Bunim Alter (1898–1992)
Pinchas Menachem Alter (1926–1996)
Yaakov Aryeh Alter (b 1939).