Yisrael Ariel

Rabbi Yisrael Ariel (; born Yisrael Stieglitz 15 August 1939) was the chief rabbi of the evacuated Israeli settlement of Yamit in the Sinai Peninsula during the years when the Sinai was controlled by Israel, and the founder of the Temple Institute (Machon HaMikdash). His brother, Rabbi Yaakov Ariel, served as the rosh yeshiva in the yeshiva in Yamit and later became the chief rabbi of Ramat Gan.

Biography Ariel is a graduate of the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva.

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 terrorism 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.

He called for the conquest of Lebanon. He believes that killing an Arab is not a murder, and called for the expulsion of non-Jews from Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel).