Dov Lior is a far-right Israeli Orthodox rabbi and dean of the Kiryat Arba Hesder Yeshiva, a longtime symbol of religious and nationalist extremism in Israel. Through 2010 the opening reported that he was barred from election to the Supreme Rabbinical Council after making statements suggesting captured Arab terrorists could be used to conduct medical experiments. Today the word terror survives twice elsewhere in the article, but the opening carries no mention of the barred election or the statement behind it. A reader arriving now learns of his support for mass murderer Baruch Goldstein and his comments on the 2015 Paris attacks, not that he was barred from a rabbinical council over a proposal to experiment on captured terrorists.
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Dov Lior ( , born 1933) is the Chief Rabbi of Hebron and Kiryat Arba in the southern West Bank .1He is also the rosh yeshiva Kiryat Arba Hesder Yeshiva [1] , and also heads the "Council of Rabbis of Judea and Samaria ".2He was born to a Belz hasidic family, son to Moshe Leibland in Breslau , Galicia . He attempted to board the Exodus , eventually arriving on the Negba a few weeks before the establishment of the State of Israel , where he changed his surname to the Hebrew Lior . In Israel he first studied at the Bnei Akiva Kfar HaRoeh high school yeshiva , and then at Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook 's Mercaz haRav yeshiva, where owing to Lior's being an orphan, the Rabbi treated him like a son. Lior was married in 5720 to Bitya, but his wife died of cancer in 5748 ; he remarried in 5736 to Esther, 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 joined the Hashomer Hatzair kibbutz HaMa'apil . Rabbi Dov Lior (center) in a meeting with students of Machon Meir at his house in Kiryat Arba in June 2008 Lior is considered by many to be a leading scholar of the Religious Zionist camp and the prime student of the late Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook , son of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook . In the late 1980s the Attorney General barred Lior’s election to the Supreme Rabbinical Council following a public outcry over statements he made suggesting that captured Arab terrorists could be used to conduct medical experiments. , and following the Mercaz HaRav massacre , he made another ruling which states that it is forbidden by Jewish law to employ or rent homes to Arabs. On March 19, 2007, Dov Lior, arrived at Beit HaShalom and gave his blessings to the structure and local Jewish community. [2] On January 21, 2008, Rabbi Dov Lior, Rabbi Ya'acov Shapira of Jerusalem 's Mercaz HaRav yeshiva , Rabbi Elyakim Levanon of Elon Moreh , and Rabbi Nahum Rabinovitch of Ma'ale Adumim met at Beit HaShalom to declare the government's policies on Israeli settlements to be "worse than the British Mandate 's White Paper ." In the recent general elections, Rav Lior came out in clear favour of the National Union , and indeed was a key figure in the break-up of the recently formed The Jewish Home , formed to create a united political front for all religious Zionists. In 2009, he issued a statement denouncing the possible transfer of juridiction of Christian sites in Israel to the Holy See, saying it was "unthinkable to hand over to the Vatican any piece of our holy land".3
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Dov Lior ( , born 1933) is an Israeli rabbi , who serves as the Chief Rabbi of Hebron and Kiryat Arba in the southern West Bank . He is also the rosh yeshiva Kiryat Arba Hesder Yeshiva , and also heads the "Council of Rabbis of Judea and Samaria ". Chaim Levinson, 'Kiryat Arba chief rabbi arrested following his support of book which justifies killing of non-Jews,' Haaretz ,27 June 2011. 'Hebron Chief Rabbi Pulls Support from Bennett's Party,' The Jewish Press , 4 January 2013.
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Rabbi Dov Lior at Beit HaRav, Jerusalem Rabbi Dov Lior ( , born 30 October 1933) is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi , who served as the Chief Rabbi of Hebron and Kiryat Arba in the southern West Bank until late 2014.He is also the rosh yeshiva of the Kiryat Arba Hesder Yeshiva , and also heads the "Council of Rabbis of Judea and Samaria ". Chaim Levinson, 'Kiryat Arba chief rabbi arrested following his support of book which justifies killing of non-Jews,' Haaretz ,27 June 2011.
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He served as the Chief Rabbi of Hebron and Kiryat Arba in the southern West Bank until late 2014. He is the rosh yeshiva of the Kiryat Arba Hesder Yeshiva and heads the "Council of Rabbis of Judea and Samaria ".Dubbed an extremist by the The Forward , Lior on multiple occasions has called for ethnic cleansing of Arab Muslims and has expressed support for mass murderers. "Kiryat Arba chief rabbi arrested following his support of book which justifies killing of non-Jews" . "Israeli rabbi: It's okay to kill innocent civilians and destroy Gaza" . +972 Magazine .The Crisis of Zionism .
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Israeli Orthodox rabbi (born 1933) Dov Lior ( Hebrew : דוב ליאור ; born 30 October 1933) is an Israeli Orthodox rabbi and political figure part of a far-right, nationalist movement for an ethnic and religious state.He served as the Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Arba , a Jewish settlement near the West Bank town of Hebron , until late 2014.He is the dean (or rosh yeshiva ) of the Kiryat Arba IDF - Hesder Yeshiva and leads the council of rabbis for the West Bank settlements.Lior founded the hard-right Tekumah party together with Arutz 7 's owner Rabbi Zalman Melamed and Rabbi Chaim Steiner.Lior is a longtime symbol of religious and nationalist extremism in Israel.Lior has also expressed support for mass murderers, such as Israeli-American mass murderer Baruch Goldstein , who killed 29 Muslims in a Hebron mosque .He claimed the 2015 Islamic State attacks on Paris , which left 130 civilians dead, were deserved as payback for the Holocaust.When Israel invaded the Gaza Strip in 2014, he issued a religious ruling that allowed soldiers to kill civilians if that's what's needed for the safety of Israel and, if necessary, destroy Gaza entirely. "Kiryat Arba chief rabbi arrested following his support of book which justifies killing of non-Jews" . The Crisis of Zionism . Times of Israel . 2016-01-08. "Israeli rabbi: It's okay to kill innocent civilians and destroy Gaza" . +972 Magazine .
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