Hillel Weiss is a professor of literature at Bar Ilan University in Israel.
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Hillel Weiss is a tenured professor at the Joseph & Norman Berman Department of Literature of the Jewish People, Faculty of Jewish Studies, Bar-llan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel. As head of the Department of Hebrew Literature, he changed its name to the Department of Literature of the Jewish People. He is the editor of “Bikoret U’parshanut,” a journal of literary criticism.
As a literary researcher, he specializes in the work of Shmuel Yosef Agnon, about whom he has published five books. He developed a computerized database for the author's complete works, with 2,500,000 words that can be accessed online through a retrieval system. The access is through three main frames. Frame A: Poetics. General typhology, genres; motifs sources, poetic functions Frame B index of subjects, philosophy, history; society; psychology Frame C indices of individual works according to A and B, index of place and names, index of synopses; abstracts of criticism; bibliography
Hillel Weiss is a prominent figure of the Neo-Zionist movement.[1] He was one of the founders of the religious peace movement in the early 1970s. Today the professor "preaches" the necessity of rebuilding the Temple and of Jewish rule over Greater Israel.[2][3][4]
Weiss was the cause of a controversy during the 2005 Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem when he said "this abomination should be expelled from the Holy City by any means necessary".[5]
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.[6] Moshe Kaveh, president of Bar-Ilan University said about the incident:
"His statements were horrific and need condemnation and public denunciation... The university views his actions very gravely, and demands he take responsibility for them,"[7]
Council for Peace and security; association of national security experts in Israel censured Hillel Weiss for his cursing of the Hebron commander.[8]
Hillel Weiss accuses secular Jews of betrayal of their cultural heritage if they deny the Masada Mythical narrative.[9]
Weiss in “The Messianic Theme in AB Yehoshua and Amos Oz 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.[10] And Israel’s left wing as having a jihad against the Jews.[11]
Weiss views the Jewish experience as an "ongoing Shoah".[12]
He has 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]