Dov Lior

Dov Lior (Hebrew דב ליאור, born 1933 in Breslau, German Empire ) is an Israeli rabbi, Jewish scholar and author, the chief rabbi in the Israeli settlements in Hebron and Kiryat Arba in the West Bank is. He is Chairman of the Board of Rabbis of Judea and Samaria.

Life

Lior was in a Hasidic dynasty ( Belz ), the son of Moshe canvas in Jaroslaw, Galicia born. He emigrated ( Alija ) on the ship Exodus, or Negba in the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, a few weeks before the Israeli Declaration of Independence, a. There he changed his name to Lior. In Israel, he studied at the Bnei Akiva Kfar Haroeh and then at the Merkas HaRaw Kook Yeshiva of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook. As Lior orphan, was the Rabbi Kook as a son treated him. Lior Bitya married in 1960. She died of cancer in 1988. Later he married Esther, the widow of Rabbi Ephraim Shahor. Lior has 11 children, 55 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Two of his brothers came to him in Israel and moved to the Hashomer Hatzair kibbutz HaMa'apil.

Rabbinic Career

Lior is a supporter of religious Zionism. He served 10 years as Rabbi of Moshav Kfar Haroeh ( between Hadera and Netanya ). He then became chief rabbi of Kiryat Arba, a settlement in Hebron in the occupied West Bank in 1967. It is used together with Rav Eliezer Waldman as head of the yeshiva Kiryat Arba Nir Hesder. 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, which forbade Israel Attorney General Liors election to the Supreme Rabbinical Council, after there had been a public outcry over remarks Liors. Lior hatt suggested that one should use captured Arab terrorists in medical experiments. After the massacre at the Merkas HaRaw Kook, in which a Palestinian gunman killed eight Jewish students and eleven seriously injured in part, Lior said it was forbidden by the Halacha, adjust Arabs or Arab Israelis as employees, or to rent apartments to them.

Dov Lior in 2007 took part in the inauguration of Beit HaShalom and gave local Jewish community his blessing. 2008 Lior explained along with other right-wing rabbis the policies of the Israeli government regarding Israeli settlements, was worse than the British with its White Paper. "

In 2009, he condemned the possible transfer of the responsibility of Christian sites in Israel to the Holy See, it was " inconceivable to hand over a piece of our sacred land to the Vatican ."

2011 Lior was sought for questioning by the Israeli police. He was asked about the controversial statements he had written in a foreword to the book of right-wing rabbis Yitzchak Ginsburgh. He agreed to be interrogated at his home, but the police had applied for a warrant. This approach of the police led to a conviction in many right-wing religious circles.

Controversies

Lior took the view that Jewish women should not use sperm donation by non-Jews for reproduction. Such a produced hybrid baby would carry the negative genetic characteristics of a non-Jew in itself. The sperm of unbelievers would lead to barbaric offspring.

Lior was a staunch opponent of the Abkoppelungsplans and said, in 2007, to the situation of African refugees in Israel that a much more important question of the situation of the Jewish settlers - whether from Gaza - " refugees." By this he meant the settlers who had been withdrawn in 2005 by Israel from the Gaza Strip.

Leading rabbis have testified that Lior had been the source of religious jurisprudence that would have branded the assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as a " Rodef " and " Moser " ( a Jewish traitor who endangered Jewish lives ). Rabin's assassin, Yigal Amir, Lior had visited before his act. Baruch Goldstein in Hebron also met with Lior. Goldstein opened fire on Muslim worshipers at the Cave of the Patriarchs and thereby killed 29 people before he himself was killed. Lior Goldstein described as " holier than all the martyrs of the Holocaust. " In June 2011, Lior was arrested by the Israeli police and questioned on suspicion of incitement to violence.

Lior was invited for questioning by the authorities to go to 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 the highway 1, to protest against Liors arrest. The Israeli Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger and Shlomo Amar condemned the arrest as a " serious offense against the honor of the most important rabbis ". 25 right Members of Knesset signed a petition, and described the behavior of the deputy state prosecutor Shai Nitzan. as " shameful". Lior was released after an hour of questioning.

Both the opposition leader Tzipi Livni and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for a criminal investigation and discovered that Rabbi befänden not above the law.

In September 2011, he said that Arabs ' evil camel riders " are

2012 Lior called U.S. President Barack Obama a " Kushi of the West" and compared the Western European government with Nazikollaborateuren.