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Although Rabbi Yosef Kelner, who teaches at the Bnei David yeshiva in Eli in the West Bank, said not observing Torah is 'treason' and should be punished by 'a bullet to the head.' This is the same reason why Iran must not obtain nuclear weapons: Religious fundamentalism
In late 1978, Yehuda Etzion, one of the founders of the Ofra settlement, met with Shabtai Ben-Dov, one of the original religious Zionist thinkers who emerged from that community. Etzion asked Ben-Dov whether the destruction of the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem would serve as the critical catalyst to bring messianic redemption.
