» This article is about Gamaliel the Elder. For other individuals and uses see Gamaliel (disambiguation) Gamaliel the Elder (gəmā'lēəl), or Rabbi Gamaliel I, was a leading authority in the Sanhedrin in the mid first century. He was the grandson of the great Jewish teacher Hillel the Elder, and died twenty years before the destruction of the second temple in Jerusalem. He fathered a son, whom he called Simeon, after his father's nameThe Jewish Encyclopedia article on Gamliel… (More on Gamaliel)