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In 1994, whilst Attorney General, he petitioned the then-Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to evict all Jewish settlers living in Hebron, following the attack by Jewish extremist Baruch Goldstein which had resulted in 29 deaths and 125 injuries at the Cave of the Patriarchs/Ibrahimi Mosque.[2]
His grandmother, Sarah Jannah, owned a home in Sheikh Jarrah before 1948. Ben-Yair has been very strongly against the evictions of Palestinians from the former family home and wishes to regain ownership and allow the Palestinians to live in the building for a nominal rent.[5]
