I met him on Friday of the Asseres Yemei Teshuvoh back in 1985, when I posed to him the question of Yom Tov Sheni issue?
He asked me, if I were to meet a rich Swiss girl, would I quit on being in Israel? I said, no. He told me to observe 1&1/2 days Yom Tov.
Ad haYom haZeh, whenever I spend Yom Tov in Israel, I observe 1&1/2 days Yom Tov. In latter years I got this same Pesak from 2 other Gedolim.
That same year, 7 months earlier, I had met his Mechuton, the Steipler who looked more like a Mal’och than like a human being, bearing in mind, that I had never seen a photo of the Steipler before meeting him.
That same year, I also saw his other Mechuton, Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach numerous times, when I spent a few months in Sha’arei Chessed and saw him at the Gr’a Shoule almost daily. By the way I often led services or/& Leined the Torah, and Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach never had a complaint and kept allowing me to perform. Only comment he ever made to me to fix up, was to recite Kaddish d’Rabbonon if no-one else recites it, despite having my 2 parents. I could never bring myself to do that, until this year when unfortunately I have become a Chiyuv.