Rabbi Meir Alter, was a Torah scholar and businessman, the eldest son.

In 1924, Rebbe Alter accompanied the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah delegation which visited Palestine.

[1] During World War II, Rebbe Alter was targeted by the Nazi authorities in occupied Poland.

He died during the holiday of Shavuot of natural causes during the siege of the city by the Jordanian Arab Legion.

As bodies could not be removed to the Mount of Olives during wartime, he was buried in the yeshiva courtyard on the condition that he would be reburied elsewhere after the war.

In 1996, Rabbi Pinchas Menachem Alter was buried next to his father in the courtyard and a red-brick ohel was placed over both graves, which are visited regularly by students in the adjoining yeshiva.

A religious moshav in central Israel is named for the Rebbe, Bnei Re'em, (lit.