21 Facts About Yoel Bin-Nun

Yoel Bin-Nun is an Israeli religious Zionist rabbi and one of the founders of Yeshivat Har Etzion, Gush Emunim, Michlelet Herzog and the settlements of Alon Shevut and Ofra.

Yoel Bin-Nun is a scholar of Jewish thought, and a lecturer and expert on the Tanach.

Yoel Bin-Nun studied at the Kfar Haroeh yeshiva and, later, the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva, where he was close to Zvi Yehuda Kook.

Yoel Bin-Nun fought in the Six Day War and was part of Israel's 55th Paratroopers Brigade that liberated Old City Jerusalem.

Yoel Bin-Nun is one of the main characters featured in Yossi Klein HaLevi's Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided A Nation.

Yoel Bin-Nun fought in the Yom Kippur War, his brigade being the one who crossed the Suez Canal, changing the tide of the war.

Rabbi Yoel Bin-Nun published many articles in the journal and elsewhere.

Yoel Bin-Nun taught training courses for instructors of the Society for the Protection of Nature.

Yoel Bin-Nun emphasized a deep understanding of Tanach and its connection to the Land of Israel.

Yoel Bin-Nun's teaching and activities at Yeshivat Har Etzion, at Herzog College and more contributed to the "Tanach revolution" in Israel, especially in the Dati-Leumi public.

Yoel Bin-Nun led a generation of religious Zionists back to the study of Tanach as a way to understand contemporary Israel.

Yoel Bin-Nun has a website containing many of his shiurim.

Yoel Bin-Nun believed that it is important to see the nuances, complexity and even faults of the heroes of the Bible and as having a humanity that is not fundamentally different from those learning the text.

Similarly to his Rabbi, Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook, and Kook's father, Rav Abraham Isaac Kook, Yoel Bin-Nun strongly promotes the value of Achdut Yisrael, unity among the Jewish people.

Yoel Bin-Nun believes that only through Achdut will the Jewish people thrive and that the Geulah itself is a process that is a function of the Ahavat Chinam and Achdut in Am Yisrael.

Yoel Bin-Nun was one of the drafters of the Kinneret Charter, which seeks to create a common denominator between the various segments in the Jewish public.

Yoel Bin-Nun was very close with Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, corresponding with him frequently.

Yoel Bin-Nun became much more well known after Rabin's assassination in November 1995, when he attacked the atmosphere in the Dati-Leumi public before the assassination, saying that he had information about rabbis who ruled that Rabin fell under "Din Rodef" thereby legitimizing his murder.

Yoel Bin-Nun did not provide details or evidence and his remarks were perceived by many in the religious Zionist public as illegitimate.

Yoel Bin-Nun did a lot of interviewing during the period surrounding the disengagement plan.

Yoel Bin-Nun wrote that the approach of the sharp and violent resistance was only damaging, and emphasized that although democracy allows for "civil disobedience" it is precisely the Torah that forbids it.