Uri Ariel
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| Date of birth | 22 December 1952 |
| Knesset(s) | 15th, 16th, 17th (current) |
| Party | Tkuma (part of the National Union) |
Uri Yehuda Ariel (Hebrew: אורי אריאל, born 22 December 1952) is an Israeli politician and Member of the Knesset. He belongs to the Tkuma party, part of the National Union.
Ariel is married with six children. He served in a combat unit called Palsar 7 in the Israel Defense Forces and retired as Major.
[edit] Political career
Prior to the scheduled Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank in August 2005, Uri Ariel moved to Kfar Darom in solidarity and firmly opposed the plan. Similarly, he also moved to Amona prior to the dismantling of the outpost.
Originally placed 5th in the National Union Knesset list for the 2006 elections, Ariel conceded his spot to Aryeh Eldad and was listed 6th. Eventually, he was elected 9th to the Knesset after the further union with the National Religious Party.
During the Sukkot festival in 2006 Ariel ascended to the Temple Mount, saying he was preparing a plan to build a synagogue on the mount [1]. The proposed synagogue would not be built instead of the mosques but in a separate area in accordance with rulings of the prominent Rabbis. Ariel said he believed that this would be correcting a historical injustice and that it is an opportunity for the Muslim world to prove that it is tolerant to other faiths.
In March 2008 Ariel opposed the Knesset House Committee's decision to let Angela Merkel deliver her speech to the Knesset in German. In this context he also referred to the German people as "the mother of all Amalekites" [2], a people whose male children should be killed according to the Torah.
[edit] References
- ^ Rightist MK Ariel visits Temple Mount as thousands throng Wall Haaretz, 9 October 2006
- ^ Olmert accompanies Merkel to Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial Haaretz, 17 March 2008
