Hillel Weiss

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Hillel Weiss (Hebrew: הלל ויס; born 1945) is a professor emeritus of literature at Bar Ilan University in Israel.

[2][3][4] Weiss believes that secular Jews are betraying their cultural heritage if they deny the mythical aspect of the Masada narrative.

Yehoshua and Amos Oz"[6] in the anthology Israel and the Post-Zionists: A Nation at Risk, Weiss invokes the Holocaust as a cognitive filter to describe the actions of the right wing Israeli government and portrays post-Zionism as a negation of a Jewish State, anti-Zionist and anti-Israel.

[8] He has also opposed a visit by Pope Benedict XVI to Israel because of previously expressed views by the Holy See that Jerusalem should become an international city.

"[13] Weiss became the subject of another controversy due to comments he made in August 2007, during the eviction of his daughter, Tehila Yahalom, from the Hebron wholesale market.