Wolbe moved to Mandatory Palestine in 1946 and studied at Yeshivas Lomzha in Petah Tikva. He then married Rivka Grodzinski, the daughter of Rabbi Avraham Grodzinski, of the Slabodka yeshiva (Rivka passed away on October 25, 2018),making him brothers-in-law with Hagoan Rabbi Chaim Kreisworth of Belgium. Wolbe continued his studies at Kollel Toras Eretz Yisroel in Petach Tikva under Rabbi Yitzchok Katz. In 1948, Wolbe took over a small yeshiva belonging to a youth organization called Ezra. Two years later, he was joined by Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapiro of Brisk. The yeshiva was located in the small town of Be'er Yaakov, and was known as the . Shapiro became the "rosh yeshiva" and Wolbe became the "mashgiach ruchani". For more than 30 years, until 1981, Wolbe served as the "menahel ruchani" of Yeshivas Be'er Yaakov.