Meir Kahane

Meir Kahane, speaking to young Jews, in 1975.

Meir Kahane (born Martin David Kahane, August 1, 1932 – November 5, 1990) was an orthodox Rabbi. He was an Israeli politician, and served one term in the Knesset. Kahane was from Brooklyn, New York City. He was one of the founders of the Jewish Defense League, in 1968. He wanted to establish radical Zionism, and replace the current democracy in Israel with a Jewish theocracy. He also wanted to evict most non-Jews from israel, and the occuppied territories, and to establish a state called Greater Israel. Many democratic Israelis saw him as a radical, Jewish racist.

In the US, he was convicted for producing explosive devices, to be used in connection with terrorism.^[1] In Israel, he was convicted for plotting to blow up the Libyan embassy in Brussels.^[2] Both convictions happened in the 1970s. On 5 November 1990, El Sayyid Nosair, an US citizen form Egypt, assassinated Kahane, after he had given a speech in New York.

Meir Kahane Media

Kahane in Canarsie in 1975
Never Again! A Program for Survival (1972)
Stickers in Hebrew: "Today Everybody Knows: Kahane was Right"
"Gas the Arabs! JDL" graffiti in Hebron. The persistent graffiti in Hebron that calls for the expulsion or killing of Arabs has been characterized as Kahane's legacy.

References

↑ Morris Kaplan (July 24, 1971). Kahane Gets 5-Year Suspended Sentence in Bomb Plot. p. 26.
↑ "Kahane's Money Tree". November 8, 1987. Retrieved September 8, 2020.^{[dead link]}

[NYT19710714-1] Morris Kaplan (July 24, 1971). Kahane Gets 5-Year Suspended Sentence in Bomb Plot. p. 26.

[2] "Kahane's Money Tree". November 8, 1987. Retrieved September 8, 2020.^{[dead link]}

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