Yisrael Ariel

Rabbi Yisrael Ariel or Israel Ariel (Hebrew: ישראל אריאל; born 15/8/1939) is the founder of the Temple Institute and a former chief rabbi of Yamit, [one] of the largest Jewish settlements in the Sinai Peninsula, when it used to be occupied by the state of Israel since the Six-Day War. His brother, Rabbi Yaakov Ariel, served as the rosh yeshiva in the yeshiva in Yamit and later became the chief rabbi of Ramat Gan, a city in the Tel Aviv Subdistrict of the modern-day Israel.

 Biography 
Ariel is a graduate of the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva. As a young man, Ariel served in the Paratroopers Brigade unit that captured the Temple Mount in the Six-Day War.

For the 1981 Knesset elections, Yisrael Ariel ran as number two on the list of Kach, Kahane Chai behind Meir David Kahane, who ran as the party's number one, later on elected as the first Kahanist to hold a seat in 1984-85, even since the Kach party was banned and blacklisted by the United States, Israel and the European Union as a Jewish millitant/terrorist group.

As of 2006, aside from his role as the current chairman of the Temple Institute, Ariel is involved in Sanhedrin revival. 

As of 2006, aside from being the head of the Temple Institute, he is also involved in an attempt to revive the Sanhedrin.

In December 2006, he was briefly arrested and interrogated by Israeli police after confronting General Elazar Stern.

 Views 
In 2015, he described Jewish religious terrorist suspects who were banned from entering the West Bank due to vandalism, as praiseworthy.

He also criticized gay people who walked on the Temple Mount, and suggested that some earthquakes were divine retribution from God as a result of gay people walking on the mount.

 See also 

 Modern attempts to revive the Sanhedrin
 The Temple Institute, a far-right Jewish-fundamentalist organization involved in attempts to construct a Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount. 

 References 

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Category:Israeli rabbis
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