ABSTRACT
One can show love for the Land of Israel in various ways. A number of rabbis and their adherents did so in a humble way, some of them even so fearfully that they refused to set foot in the land of Eretz Yisrael before the arrival of the Messiah. Other Jews were not reluctant to travel to the promised homeland and settle there; despite this, they were aware that there were other nations and faiths living on the same territory that had also nurtured a warm relationship with the same land during the centuries when the Jews were absent, and that all of them were under the protection of God, who would eventually decide how things would further develop in Eretz Yisrael. However, then arrived the Jews whose love for the land grew into selfishness and hatred towards the majority of the other people living there. Until his death in 2015 their leader was, among others, Moshe Levinger – one of the most controversial rabbinical figures of contemporary Israel. He is regarded as a spiritual authority of the Jewish settlers from Hebron, who make up one of the most radical parts of the whole Israeli society.
