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TODAY’S BLOG
6 pm Israel time, Sunday, May 17 2015
Rabbi Moshe Levinger: 1935-2015.
Rabbi Moshe Levinger, a giant of the Jewish community movement in Judea and Samaria and a giant of Israel, died yesterday.
Born in Jerusalem in 1935, Rabbi Levinger studied under famed Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook. According to Levinger, it was Kook who taught him “that the Land of Israel must be in the hands of the Jewish people—not just by having settlements, but that it’s under Jewish sovereignty“.
Rabbi Levinger with a group of young nationalists in the 1960s.
Levinger took the lesson to heart and by 1967 he undertook a series of actions which forever endeared him to Zionists:
**he led the Jewish resettlement of the Etzion Bloc in 1968 which had been ethnically cleansed of all Jews back in 1948.
That’s Levinger (left) dancing on the shoulders of his students.
**also in 1968, he re-established a Jewish presence in Hebron which had been emptied of Jews in the years after the 1929 pogrom there. With government approval, he established Kiryat Arba and eventually the Jewish quarter in Hebron.
What Levinger accomplished in Gush Etzion and Hebron was a testament to his fervent Zionism, tenacity, and his great love of Israel.
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Because of his belief in the importance of a Jewish presence in Hebron, Levinger was often the target of death threats and always traveled with body guards.
In 1987, a panel of leading Israelis were asked who had had the greatest impact on Israeli society in the last twenty years. The two people they chose were Menachem Begin and Moshe Levinger.
Unfortunately, Rabbi Levinger’s health began to decline during the last decade as he suffered a series of strokes. Nevertheless, he remained the spiritual leader of Judea and Samaria.
Always a student of the Torah, Levinger cherished the study until his death yesterday.
Rabbi Levinger will never be forgotten, and his legacy will live on. He is survived by his wife, Miriam, 11 children, and 50 grandchildren. Many of them are already playing major roles in the history of Israel.
May Rabbi Levinger’s memory forever be blessed!
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.