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Dan Be'eri (born 1964 or 1965)[1] is a French-born Israeli rabbi, founder of the Jewish educational method known as the Barkai method[2][3] and a former member of Gush Emunim and the Jewish Underground.

Biography

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Born to a French Protestant family, his father having converted to Protestantism from Catholicism.[4] He immigrated to Israel after the Six Day War after having previously lived in the country for a short period of time as a kibbutz volunteer before returning to France for his university studies.[4][5]

In 1969, he successfully converted to Judaism and married his Jewish girlfriend, Shoshanna Tannenhaus.[5] The couple had nine children.[6] Be'eri completed his studies at a yeshiva in 1973.[6]

Right-wing activities

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He joined Gush Emunim in 1976, and by the late 1970s had joined a plan to blow up the Dome of the Rock.[4][6] In the 1980s, he was a member of the Jewish Underground.[4] In 1985, he received a prison sentence for taking part in the plot to attack the Dome of the Rock, which was never carried out.[1][7] According to Be'eri, the plan aimed to provoke Egypt into abandoning its peace treaty with Israel, and delay the return of the Sinai Peninsula (then under Israeli control) to Egypt.[1] He also testified that he left the plan after the Jewish settlement of Yamit, in Sinai, was abandoned in April 1982.[1] While in prison awaiting his sentencing, Be'eri undertook a hunger strike in November 1984.[8] He reached a plea bargain deal in March 1985.[1] His three year sentence was commuted by Israeli President Chaim Herzog in December 1985.[9]

He has promoted the celebrating of Hannukah through the lens of modern Zionism, drawing parallels between the Macabees and the Jewish Underground.[7]

Education

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In 1978, he founded a Talmud Torah, a religious children's school, in Kiriyat Arba, a Jewish settlement near Hebron in the West Bank.[6] At this school, Be'eri integrated general and Jewish subjects (with the exception of mathematics).[10]

Be'eri has criticized the traditional model of yeshiva learning, believing it to no longer be necessary in the modern state of Israel.[10]

He is a member of the advisory board of AlHatorah.org.[11]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Two Confessed Jewish Underground Members Expected to Be Sentenced Soon". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 1985-03-29. Retrieved 2025-05-13.
  2. ^ Abowitz, Shoshi; Zaboulani, Nathan (2025-01-07). "The Barkai Method for Teaching Humash". Jewish Education Leadership. 23 (2). Bar-Ilan University. Retrieved 2025-05-12.
  3. ^ "הרב דן בארי: הסיבות להצלחתו הפדגוגית, והחיבור בין עמדותיו הפוליטיות ל'עבריות' - מכון מניטו - הרב יהודא לאון אשכנזי ז"ל". manitou.org.il. Retrieved 2025-05-12.
  4. ^ a b c d Gorenberg, Gershom (2002-03-15). The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount. Oxford University Press. p. 133. ISBN 978-0-19-984040-3.
  5. ^ a b "המטרה: החזרת המכילתא למרכז בית המדרש". מקור ראשון (in Hebrew). 2020-03-15. Retrieved 2025-05-12.
  6. ^ a b c d Kepel, Gilles (1994). The Revenge of God: The Resurgence of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism in the Modern World. Penn State Press. p. 168. ISBN 978-0-271-01314-5.
  7. ^ a b Don-Yehiya, Eliezer (2018-01-16). "16. Hanukkah and the Myth of the Macabees in Ideology and Society". In Deshen, Shlomo (ed.). Israeli Judaism: The Sociology of Religion in Israel. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-351-29390-7.
  8. ^ "Alleged Jewish terrorists start hunger strike". Northern Californian Jewish Bulletin. Vol. 132, no. 43. Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 1984-11-02. p. 2.
  9. ^ "Jewish Terrorists Try to Assassinate Three Palestinian Mayors". Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. American Educational Trust. 1999-06-25. Retrieved 2025-05-13.
  10. ^ a b Marty, Martin E.; Appleby, R. Scott (1997-01-05). Fundamentalisms and Society: Reclaiming the Sciences, the Family, and Education. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-50881-8.
  11. ^ "Who We Are". alhatorah.org. Retrieved 2025-05-13.
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