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As a child, he escaped the deportations to Nazi death camps , being hidden under a false identity. He studied mathematics, physics, and electrical engineering at the Superior School of Electricity. At the age of 23, infused with the idea of working the Land of Israel , Aviner made aliyah to Sde Eliyahu , a kibbutz near Beit She'an.

At Kook's direction, he joined a group that was settling Hebron , and learned Torah there. In , Aviner became the rabbi of Kibbutz Lavi in the Lower Galilee , where he spent half of his day working on the farm. A number of years later, he left Lavi to serve as the rabbi of Keshet , an Israeli settlement in the Golan Heights.

Shlomo Avineri was an Israeli political scientist.

In , Aviner accepted the position of rabbi of Beit El Aleph , in the Binyamin region of the Shomron, a position he held until In , he also became the rosh yeshiva of the newly-established Yeshivat Ateret Cohanim later named Ateret Yerushalayim. The yeshiva has produced rabbis, teachers, educators, and IDF officers, while promoting the building and settling of Jews in Jerusalem.

Aviner's outspoken views have provoked controversy. In the wake of Pope John Paul II 's visit to Bethlehem in , during which he announced that the Vatican had always recognized " Palestinian national rights to a homeland", Aviner said that the pope's goal was simply to obtain a foothold for the Catholic Church in Jerusalem. Aviner has been accused of sexual abuse.

Some of these accusations were published in Maariv. As a result of the uproar following the publication, the newspaper appointed an independent investigator, the psychiatrist Netanel Laor, who came to the conclusion that Aviner was innocent, though maybe guilty of practicing therapy without the backing of a professional.

Israeli political scientist, professor.

The expert also said that Aviner's intentions were honorable. Aviner is a founder of Atzat Nefesh , an organisation that promotes conversion therapy for homosexuals, which he is a strong proponent of. Despite the Israel Ministry of Health 's rejection of conversion therapy as pseudo-science , Aviner has said that he will continue to refer homosexuals to the organisation.