Hillel Weiss is a prominent figure of the Neo-Zionist movement.Uri Ram, The Future of the Past in Israel - A Sociology of Knowledge Approach, in Benny Morris, Making Israel, the University of Michigan Press, 2007. He was one of the founders of the religious peace movement in the early 1970s. He believes in the necessity of rebuilding the Temple and instating Jewish rule over Greater Israel.Haaretz Weiss versa by Avi Garfunkel,30 January 2004friendvill0104 (copy of Ha'aretz article)ABC News Weiss believes that secular Jews are betraying their cultural heritage if they deny the mythical aspect of the Masada narrative.Nachman Ben-Yehuda (1996) The Masada Myth: Collective Memory and Mythmaking in Israel University of Wisconsin Press, , p 287 In the chapter "The Messianic Theme in the Works of A.B. Yehoshua and Amos Oz"Israel and the Post-Zionists: A Nation at Risk, Chapter 11: The Messianic Theme in the Works of A.B. Yehoshua and Amos Oz Retrieved 2013-01-02 in the anthology Israel and the Post-Zionists: A Nation at Risk, Weiss invokes the Holocaust as a cognitive filter to describe the actions of the right wing Israeli government and portrays post-Zionism as a negation of a Jewish State, anti-Zionist and anti-Israel.Editors Shlomo Sharan, Merkaz Ari’el le-meḥḳere mediniyut (2003) Israel and the Post-Zionists: A Nation at Risk Sussex Academic Press, , p 204-226 Weiss views the Jewish experience as an "ongoing Shoah".S. Lillian Kremer , (2003) Holocaust Literature: An Encyclopedia of Writers and Their Work Taylor & Francis , p 822
