GAMLIʾEL OF YAVNEH, also known as Gamliʾel II, was a Palestinian tanna, rabbi, patriarch (nasiʾ), and head of the academy at Yavneh in the late first and early second century. In contrast to contemporary authorities, who either bear no title or, more often, are referred to by the title rabbi, Gamliʾel was accorded the apparently honorific title rabban, which he shares with other leaders of the patriarchal house (see Avot 1.16, 1.18). His traditions are recorded in the Mishnah and related texts.

Gamliʾel bore major responsibility for the centralization of rabbinical authority at Yavneh following the war with the Romans in 66–70. Succeeding the apparent founder of that academy, Yoḥanan ben Zakkʾai, Gamliʾel was in a position to guide the rabbinical effort in the reconstruction of a nation that had seen its spiritual center...