Shalom Dov Wolpo

Who is Shalom Dov Wolpo?

Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, also Sholom Ber Wolpe, is a prominent religious author and political activist in Israel and a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi. He has written more than forty books in Hebrew, some of which are on halachic topics, some which deal with the position of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Lubavitcher Rebbe, as the Jewish messiah, some on the Lubavitcher Rebbe's position opposing religious Zionism.

He has become associated in recent years with right-wing political causes, and has set up a campaign group - SOS Israel - an organization that runs press and billboard campaigns promoting the belief that surrender of parts of the Land of Israel is prohibited by halacha, and the idea of "Greater Israel". Later, in 2008, Wolpo established an additional group opposing land concessions, Our Land of Israel.

He also has called for an independent country called the State of Judea be established in the West Bank.