Chofetz Chaim: “I heard that since in Yerushalayim everyone keeps minhag haGra…..”
I think that would be big news to the Sephardim, Bnei Eidos Hamizrach, Teimanim, Chassidim, to learn that they are actually noheig the same as the perushim….Have you told Chacham Ovadiah the news? As I posted above, there are at least two Charedi minyonim in Yerusholayim where tefillin is worn. The Erlauer Rebbe is a Yid a zokein, a talmid chochom, einikel of the Chasam Sofer, not just stam a Yid. I think he knows what he is doing.
“I heard that since in Yerushalayim everyone keeps minhag haGra, therefore even a guest shouldn’t wear tefillin. When I was there I was told not to even wear them bitzina. I got the impression that this was just for Yerushalayim, not necessarily the rest of Eretz Yisrael.”
Yerusholayim has different eidos withe different minhogim, as above. It is not only talmidei HaGR”A, ????? ?????? ????.
There is no single, unified minhog Yerusholayim. It is like a city with shnei botei dinin.
Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach related that he had a kabboloh, from Rav Dovid Baharan (a poseik in Yerusholayim in the old days), az oib einer vet kumen tzu eich un vet zogen ‘dos iz minhag Yerusholayim’, zolst vissen,