Moshe Zar

Moshe Zar (; 27 January 1937 – 11 July 2025) was an Israeli settler and convicted terrorist. A religious Zionist, he was a member of the terrorist organization "Jewish Underground", and was known for being a settler leader in the northern West Bank. He bought land from individual Palestinians from 1979 onwards.

Biography Zar was born on 27 January 1937 in Jerusalem to Sara and Binyamin, a descendent of Mashhadi Jews. He was a long-time friend of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. He was wounded in the 1956 Sinai Campaign, and lost his left eye as a result of his injuries. In 1983, he was attacked and stabbed by a group of Palestinians, but survived. Zar was mourned by Israel's Minister of Finance, Bezalel Smotrich, who praised Zar as "One of the founding pillars of the settlement enterprise in Judea and Samaria".