Racist Extremist Rabbi To Step Down From West Bank Position
The racist extremist Chief Rabbi of of the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba and adjacent Hebron, Dov Lior, is stepping down – but not out. Instead of retiring, the 80-year-old Lior will reportedly move to the disputed Beit Orot neighborhood on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem.
Above: Rabbi Dov Lior
Racist Extremist Rabbi To Step Down From West Bank Position
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
The racist extremist Chief Rabbi of of the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba and adjacent Hebron, Dov Lior, is stepping down – but not out.
Instead of retiring, the 80-year-old Lior, who has been chief rabbi in Kiryat Arba and Hebron since 1976, will reportedly move to the disputed Beit Orot neighborhood on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem.
One of Lior’s aides told The Jerusalem Post that now, at 80-years-old Lior thought it the right time to step down. The aide said that Lior decided to move to the new Jewish neighborhood on the Mount of Olives because Jewish settlements in largely Arab East Jerusalem are “close to his heart.”
Lior reportedly bought property in Beit Orot two years ago.
The construction of Beit Orot in 2011 was strongly opposed by both the Palestinian Authority and the Obama administration.
Lior is one of the most extreme and radical rabbis in the Zionist Orthodox community and has wide and deep influence among Zionsit Orthodox West Bank settlers and their supporters.
He supported a call for IDF soldiers to refuse orders to evacuate Jewish settlements in Gaza in 2005. In 2008, he ruled that it is forbidden for a Jew to rent a house to Arabs anywhere in Israel or to employ Arabs.
A source from the right-wing Zionist Orthodox HaBayit HaYehudi Party reportedly said HaBayit HaYehudi would try to fill the Kiryat Arba-Hebron position with someone a bit more moderately right-wing who is more closely aligned with HaBayit HaYehudi’s positions.
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