Dov Lior

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Rabbi Dow Lior (center) meeting with Machon Meir students at his home in Kiryat Arba in June 2008.

Dow Lior ( Hebrew דב ליאור, * 1933 in Jarosław , Poland ) is a right-wing extremist Israeli rabbi , Jewish scholar and author who is chief rabbi in the Israeli settlements in Hebron and Kiryat Arba in the West Bank. He is chairman of the Council of Rabbis of Judea and Samaria .

Life

Lior was born as Dow Canvas in Jaroslau ( Galicia ). His father, Moshe, was a Belser Hasid . He immigrated ( Aliyah ) on the ship Exodus or the Negba in the League of Nations mandate for Palestine , a few weeks before the Israeli declaration of independence . There he changed his name to Lior. In Israel he studied first at the Bne Akiwa Kfar Haroeh and then at the Merkas HaRaw Kook -Yeshiva of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook . Since Lior was an orphan, Rabbi Kook treated him like a son. Lior married Bitya in 1960. She died of cancer in 1988. He later married Esther, the widow of Rabbi Ephraim Shahor. Lior has 11 children, 55 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Two of his brothers arrived in Israel after him and moved to Hashomer Hatzair - Kibbutz HaMa'apil .

Rabbinical career

Lior is a believer in religious Zionism . He served 10 years as the rabbi of the moshav Kfar Haroeh (between Hadera and Netanya ). He then became chief rabbi of Kiryat Arba, a settlement in Hebron in the West Bank, which was occupied in 1967. Together with Rav Eliezer Waldman, he serves as head of the yeshiva Hesder Nir Kiryat Arba. In 1978 he applied for the post of Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem but was defeated by Rav B. Zolti (with a vote of 37:25).

In the late 1980s, Israel's attorney general banned Lior's election to the Supreme Rabbinical Council after there was public outcry over Liar's remarks. Lior had suggested that captured Arab terrorists could be used in medical experiments . After the Merkas HaRaw Kook massacre , in which a Palestinian terrorist murdered eight Jewish students and injured eleven, some seriously, Lior said it was forbidden under the Halacha to hire Arabs or Arab Israelis as workers or rent apartments to them .

Dow Lior 2007 attended the inauguration of Beit HaShalom and gave his blessing to local Jewish community. In 2008, Lior, along with other right-wing rabbis, declared that the Israeli government's policy on Israeli settlements was worse than the British and White Paper .

In 2009 he condemned the possible transfer of jurisdiction over the Christian sites in Israel to the Holy See , saying it was "unthinkable to hand over a piece of our holy land to the Vatican".

In 2011, Lior was visited for interrogation by the Israeli police. He was asked about controversial statements he had written in a foreword to the book by right-wing rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh . He agreed to be interrogated at his home, but the police requested an arrest warrant. These police actions resulted in wide right-wing religious convictions.

Controversy

Lior believes that Jewish women should not use sperm donated by non-Jews for reproduction. A “mixed breed baby” created in this way would have the negative genetic characteristics of a non-Jew. The semen of unbelievers would lead to barbaric offspring.

Lior was a staunch opponent of the disengagement plan and said in 2007 on the situation of African refugees in Israel that a much more important question was the situation of the Jewish settlers - "refugees" - from Gaza . He was referring to the settlers who were withdrawn from the Gaza Strip by Israel in 2005. In the same year he called for a "cleansing" of Israel (which for him includes the occupied territories) from all Arabs: These were to be resettled in countries "from which they came" - otherwise no peace would be possible.

Leading rabbis have testified that Lior was the source of religious jurisdiction that branded the murdered Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as "Rodef" and "Moser" (a Jewish traitor who endangers Jewish life). Rabin's murderer, Jigal Amir , had visited Lior before his act. Baruch Goldstein from Hebron also met with Lior. Goldstein opened fire on Muslim believers at the Patriarch's Cave, killing 29 people before he was killed himself. Lior described Goldstein as "more holy than all martyrs of the Holocaust ".

Lior wrote a praising foreword to the book The King's Torah (“Torat HaMelech”), published in 2009 , which became a bestseller in Israel and sparked a controversy about the religious legitimation of racist violence. As a result, Lior was arrested by Israeli police in June 2011 and questioned on suspicion of incitement to violence. Lior had been summoned for questioning months earlier by the authorities but refused to appear. Spontaneous demonstrations broke out in and around Jerusalem as outraged supporters demonstrated in various parts of the city and on Highway 1 to protest Lior's arrest. The Israeli chief rabbis Yona Metzger and Shlomo Amar condemned the arrest as a "serious crime against the honor of one of the most important rabbis". 25 right-wing MPs of the Knesset signed a petition, calling the behavior of the deputy prosecutor Shai Nitzan "shameful". Lior was released after an hour of questioning.

Opposition leader Tzipi Livni and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu both called for a criminal investigation and found that rabbis were not above the law.

In September 2011, Lior said that Arabs are "bad camel riders".

In 2012, Lior called US President Barack Obama a “Kushi of the West” and compared the Western European heads of government with Nazi collaborators .

In 2014 he published a halachic legal opinion referring to the Israeli military operation "Protective Edge" against the Gaza Strip , according to which no restraint was required in response to an armed attack, but the complete destruction of the Gaza Strip, including the elimination of the civilian population, was justified.

In 2015, he said that Europeans deserved the Paris terrorist attacks because of the Holocaust.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HaPardes Journal , Tevet 5738, p. 26
  2. ^ Gershom Gorenberg: The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount . Free Press, New York 2000, p. 164
  3. ↑ Nadav Shragai: Top Yesha rabbi says Jewish law forbids renting houses to Arabs . Haaretz, March 20, 2008
  4. ↑ Rabbi Lior Speaks Out Against Hiring of Arabs . Yedioth Ahronoth
  5. ↑ hebron.com ( Memento of the original from April 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hebron.com
  6. ↑ Chief Rabbinate: Holy Land assets cannot be turned over to Vatican .
  7. ↑ Gentile sperm leads to barbaric offspring ( en ) Ynetnews.com. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
  8. ↑ Sarah Willen: Darfur through a Shoah lens . In: Byron J. Good, Michael MJ Fischer, Sarah S. Willen, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good (Eds.): A Reader in Medical Anthropology . Wiley, pp. 506-521
  9. ↑ Kobi Nahshoni: Rabbi: Cleanse country of Arabs, in: Ynetnews of November 27, 2007, accessed on March 21, 2017 (English)
  10. ↑ Sefi Rachlevsky: A racist, messianic rabbi is the ruler of Israel ( en ) Haaretz.com. July 1, 2011. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
  11. ↑ Jeremy Sharon: AG: 'Torat Hamelech' authors will not be indicted, in: The Jerusalem Post of May 28, 2012, accessed on March 21, 2017 (English)
  12. ^ Igal Avidan: Des Königs Thora, in: Deutschlandradio Kultur, March 23, 2012, accessed on March 21, 2017
  13. ↑ Jonah Manel: Rabbi Lior joins marchers in J'lem protesting his arrest (English) . In: Jerusalem Post , June 27, 2011. Retrieved June 28, 2011. "Kiryat Arba Chief Rabbi Dow Lior was questioned by police about the book of Torat Hamelech (The King's Torah)." 
  14. ↑ Yair Altman: Rightists threaten further violence over rabbi's arrest (English) . In: Ynetnews , June 28, 2011. "." 
  15. ↑ Barak Ravid: Netanyahu responds to Rabbi Dov Lior's arrest: Israeli law applies to all citizens ( English ) Haaretz.com. June 28, 2011. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
  16. ↑ Rabbi Lior: Arabs are 'evil camel riders' ( en ) Ynetnews.com. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
  17. ↑ Rabbi Lior compares Obama to villain Ham ... ( en ) Jpost.com. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
  18. ↑ Ami Kaufman: Israeli rabbi: It's okay to kill innocent civilians and destroy Gaza, in: +972 of July 22, 2014, accessed on March 21, 2017 (English)
  19. ↑ Far-right settler rabbi: Paris attacks are payback for the Holocaust, in: The Jerusalem Post of November 15, 2015, accessed on March 21, 2017 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Lior, Dov
ALTERNATIVE NAMES דב ליאור (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli rabbi and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Jarosław , Poland