Yisrael Ariel

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Rabbi Yisrael Ariel was the chief rabbi of the evacuated Israeli settlement of Yamit in the Sinai desert during the years when the Sinai was controlled by Israel. His brother, Rabbi Yaakov Ariel, served as the rosh yeshiva in the yeshiva in Yamit and is currently the chief rabbi of the city of Ramat Gan. Rabbi Ariel is the founder of the Temple Institute (Machon HaMikdash). As a young man, he served in the paratroop unit that liberated the Western Wall (kotel) in the Six-Day War.

As of 2006, aside from being the head of the Temple Institute, he is also involved in an attempt to revive the Sanhedrin.

Rabbi Ariel maintains that the Pesach sacrificial service on the Temple Mount should be resumed as soon as possible, and that there are no reasons not to do so and that the Temple should be built ASAP.

In December 2006, he was briefly arrested and interrogated by Israeli police before being released.