Lior is a Religious Zionist leader and student of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook , son of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook . He served as Rabbi of Moshav Kfar Haroeh for 10 years . He subsequently became Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Arba . He serves along with Rav Eliezer Waldman as Head of the Hesder Yeshiva Nir Kiryat Arba . In 1978 , he ran for the post of Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem , but was defeated 37-25 by Rav B. Zolti . He served as Av Beit Din of the Beersheva Rabbinical Court . One of his rulings , that Jews should be prepared to sacrifice their lives to defend the settlement of Hebron , has been interpreted as support for acts of suicide if the government tries to force evacuation . In the late 1980s , Israel 's Attorney General barred Lior ’s almost certain election to the Supreme Rabbinical Council of Israel following a public outcry over his remark that captured Arab terrorists could be used as guinea pigs in medical experiments . After the Mercaz HaRav massacre , he said it was forbidden by Jewish law to employ or rent homes to Arabs
Mercaz HaRav massacre
Mercaz HaRav massacre
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