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Israeli rabbi and activist (1966?2000)
Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane
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Born
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1966-10-03
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3 October 1966
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Died
| 31 December 2000
(2000-12-31)
(aged 34)
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Cause of death
| Gunshot wounds
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Resting place
| Jerusalem
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Citizenship
| Israeli, American
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Education
| Yeshiva
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Known for
| Kach and Kahane Chai
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Spouse
| Talia Kahane
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Children
| 6
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Parent(s)
| Meir Kahane
Libby Kahane
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Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane
(
Hebrew
:
?????? ??? ????
3 October 1966 ? 31 December 2000) was an Israeli
Orthodox
rabbi and the son of Rabbi
Meir Kahane
.
Life
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Born in
New York City
, he emigrated to
Israel
with his family at the age of four, in 1971. He was a young Israeli
Orthodox Jewish
scholar and
rabbi
who was most famous for his leadership of
Kahane Chai
, a far-right political party that broke from his father's
Kach
party after Meir Kahane's assassination in 1990. He was convicted several times by Israeli courts for advocating violence against Arabs.
[1]
Kahane was the author of
The Haggada of the Jewish Idea
, a commentary based on his father's teachings of the
Passover
Haggadah
read at the
Passover Seder
. He wrote a Torah portion sheet called
Darka Shel Torah
("The Way of the Torah") that was distributed for the
weekly Torah portions
.
Death
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Kahane and his wife Talia were shot and killed near the
Israeli settlement
of
Ofra
on 31 December 2000.
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The ambush took place on road 60 about 15 km (9.3 mi) north of Jerusalem, just before the town of Ofra. Five of the couple's six children were in the van when they were hit by automatic rifle fire. Binyamin (the driver) was killed, and the vehicle went out of control and smashed into a wall. His wife Talia died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital in Jerusalem.
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The Prime Minister's Office subsequently announced the arrest of three members of
Force 17
? Talal Ghassan, Marzouk Abu Naim, and Na'man Nofel ? who were believed to have carried out the attack under the instruction of
PLO
leader Col.
Mahmoud Damra
.
[4]
However, in 2007,
Khaled Shawish
was arrested for the attack.
[5]
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