Kahane's grandfather Rabbi Nachman Kahane (1869–1937) was a leading rabbinic scholar in Safed and was the son of Rabbi Baruch David Kahane (1850–1925), who had immigrated to Mandatory Palestine from Poland in 1873 and was the author of "Hibat ha-Eretz" as well as a disciple of Chaim Halberstam of Sanz.
In 1972, Jewish Defense League leaflets were distributed in Hebron, calling for the mayor to stand trial for the 1929 Hebron massacre.
Meir David HaKohen Kahane (; רבי מאיר דוד הכהן כהנא ; born Martin David Kahane; August 1, 1932 – November 5, 1990) was an American-born Israeli ordained Orthodox rabbi, writer, and ultra-nationalist politician who served one term in Israel's Knesset.
His legacy continues to influence militant and far-right political groups active today in Israel. ==Personal life== He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1932 to an Orthodox Jewish family.
In 1947, Kahane was arrested for throwing eggs and tomatoes at Bevin, who was disembarking at Pier 84 on a visit to New York.
For me, that's cut and dried: There's no question of setting up democracy in Israel, because democracy means equal rights for all, irrespective of racial or religious origins." Kahane proposed an "exchange of populations" that would continue the Jewish exodus from Arab lands: "A total of some 750,000 Jews fled Arab lands since 1948.
Kahane also used the pen name David Sinai, and the pseudonyms Michael King, David Borac, and Martin Keene. ===Infiltrating the John Birch Society=== In the late 1950s and the early 1960s, Kahane's life of secrecy and his strong anticommunism landed him a position as a consultant with the FBI.
According to his wife, Libby, his assignment was to infiltrate the anticommunist John Birch Society and report his findings to the FBI. ===Collaboration with Joseph Churba=== At some time in the late 1950s, Kahane assumed the persona of a Gentile, along with the pseudonym Michael King.
In 1954, he became the Mazkir (Secretary) of Greater New York City's 16 Bnei Akiva chapters. Kahane's formal education included Yeshiva of Flatbush for elementary school and Brooklyn Talmudical Academy for high school.
in Political Science from Brooklyn College in 1954, a Bachelor of Law – LL.B.
in International Relations from New York University. In 1956, Kahane married Libby Blum, with whom he had four children: Tzipporah, Tova, Baruch, and Binyamin. Journalists Michael T.
Robert Friedman reported, "In reality, Kahane used the money to help finance the JDL." That meant two different things: funding the purchase of supplies for bombings and fattening his own wallet, spending lavishly on trips for himself. ==Early career== ===Pulpit rabbi=== In 1958, Kahane became the rabbi of the Howard Beach Jewish Center in Queens, New York City.
Kahane also used the pen name David Sinai, and the pseudonyms Michael King, David Borac, and Martin Keene. ===Infiltrating the John Birch Society=== In the late 1950s and the early 1960s, Kahane's life of secrecy and his strong anticommunism landed him a position as a consultant with the FBI.
He stood again in the 2013 elections as the second candidate on the list of Otzma LeYisrael, but the party failed to pass the minimum threshold. In 2007, the FBI released over a thousand documents relating to its daily surveillance of Kahane since the early 1960s. In 2015, Kahane's grandson, Meir Ettinger, was detained by Israeli law enforcement.
Friedman have separately said that Kahane, under the alias of Michael King and while already married, had an affair and proposed to 21-year-old model Gloria Jean D'Argenio (who used the stage name Estelle Donna Evans) in 1966.
While serving in the Knesset in the mid-1980s Kahane proposed numerous laws, none of which passed, to emphasize Judaism in public schools, reduce Israel's bureaucracy, forbid sexual relations between Jews and non-Jews, separate Jewish and Arab neighbourhoods, and end cultural meetings between Jewish and Arab students. In 1968, Kahane was one of the co-founders of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) in the United States.
However, Kahane himself opposed the Black Panthers, claiming they had supported anti-Jewish riots in Massachusetts and had left-wing views. ==Jewish Defense League== Kahane founded the Jewish Defense League (JDL) in New York City in 1968.
In 1971, he co-founded Kach ("Thus"), a new political party in Israel.
In 1971, Kahane was sentenced to a suspended five-year prison sentence for conspiring to manufacture explosives.
He was convicted of violating his probation for the 1971 bombing conviction and was sentenced to one year in prison.
However, he served most of it in a hotel, with frequent unsupervised absences, because of a concession over the provision of kosher food. In a 1984 interview with Washington Post correspondent Carla Hall, Kahane admitted that the JDL "bombed the Russian [Soviet] mission in New York, the Russian cultural mission here [Washington] in 1971, the Soviet trade offices". ==Immigration to Israel== In 1971, Kahane moved to Israel.
In 1971, he founded Kach, a political party that ran for the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, during the 1973 general elections under the name "The League List".
In a 1971 interview for Time magazine, Dylan said, "He's a really sincere guy.
In 1972, Jewish Defense League leaflets were distributed in Hebron, calling for the mayor to stand trial for the 1929 Hebron massacre.
In 1971, he founded Kach, a political party that ran for the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, during the 1973 general elections under the name "The League List".
In 1975, Kahane was arrested for leading the attack on the Soviet United Nations mission and injuring two officers, but he was released after being given summonses for disorderly conduct.
The party was even less successful in the 1977 elections, winning only 4,836 votes. In 1980, Kahane was arrested for the 62nd time since his emigration, and he was jailed for six months after a detention order that was based on allegations of him planning armed attacks against Palestinians in response to the killings of Jewish settlers.
The party was even less successful in the 1977 elections, winning only 4,836 votes. In 1980, Kahane was arrested for the 62nd time since his emigration, and he was jailed for six months after a detention order that was based on allegations of him planning armed attacks against Palestinians in response to the killings of Jewish settlers.
Together, Carlebach and Kahane organized one of the first Noahide conferences in the 1980s for non-Jews wishing to accept upon themselves the Noahide laws. Bob Dylan made positive comments about Kahane.
Kahane was banned from entering the United Kingdom in 1981. In 1981, Kahane's party again ran for the Knesset during the 1981 elections, but it did not win a seat and received only 5,128 votes.
In 1984, he became a member of the Knesset, when Kach gained its only-ever seat in parliamentary elections.
The Central Elections Committee tried to ban Kahane from running in the 1984 elections, but this ban was overturned by the Supreme Court because there was no law to support it.
However, he served most of it in a hotel, with frequent unsupervised absences, because of a concession over the provision of kosher food. In a 1984 interview with Washington Post correspondent Carla Hall, Kahane admitted that the JDL "bombed the Russian [Soviet] mission in New York, the Russian cultural mission here [Washington] in 1971, the Soviet trade offices". ==Immigration to Israel== In 1971, Kahane moved to Israel.
In 1984, the Israeli Central Elections Committee banned him from being a candidate on the grounds that Kach was a racist party, but the Supreme Court of Israel overturned the ban on the grounds that the committee was not authorized to ban Kahane's candidacy.
The Knesset responded in 1985 by amending the "Basic Law: Knesset" to include a prohibition (paragraph 7a) against the registration of parties that explicitly or implicitly incite racism. === Election to Knesset === In the 1984 legislative elections, Kahane's Kach party received 25,907 votes, gaining one seat in the Knesset, which was taken by Kahane.
Dershowitz. After Kahane's election to the Knesset in 1984, the United States government attempted to revoke his U.S.
The Knesset responded in 1985 by amending the "Basic Law: Knesset" to include a prohibition (paragraph 7a) against the registration of parties that explicitly or implicitly incite racism. === Election to Knesset === In the 1984 legislative elections, Kahane's Kach party received 25,907 votes, gaining one seat in the Knesset, which was taken by Kahane.
Polls showed that Kach would have likely received anywhere from four to twelve seats in the coming November 1988 elections. In 1985, the Knesset passed an amendment to the Basic Law of Israel, barring political parties that incited to racism.
In 1987, Kahane opened a yeshiva ("HaRaayon HaYehudi") with funding from US supporters to teach "the Authentic Jewish Idea".
However, in 1987, the Knesset passed a law declaring that a Knesset member could only be an Israeli citizen.
In 1988, despite polls showing Kach gaining popularity due in part to the ongoing First Intifada, Kach was banned from entering that year's elections. Kahane was assassinated in a New York City hotel by an Egyptian-born U.S.
Polls showed that Kach would have likely received anywhere from four to twelve seats in the coming November 1988 elections. In 1985, the Knesset passed an amendment to the Basic Law of Israel, barring political parties that incited to racism.
However, the Supreme Court this time ruled in favor of the committee, disqualifying Kach from running in the 1988 legislative elections.
Meir David HaKohen Kahane (; רבי מאיר דוד הכהן כהנא ; born Martin David Kahane; August 1, 1932 – November 5, 1990) was an American-born Israeli ordained Orthodox rabbi, writer, and ultra-nationalist politician who served one term in Israel's Knesset.
citizen in November 1990.
The court rejected this argument, but he was permitted to continue travelling to the United States. ==Assassination== In November 1990, Kahane gave a speech to an audience of mostly Orthodox Jews from Brooklyn, where he warned American Jews to immigrate to Israel before it was "too late".
District Court for his involvement in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Neither one was permitted to participate in the Knesset elections by the Central Elections Committee. In 1994, following the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre of Palestinian Muslim worshippers in Hebron by Kach supporter Baruch Goldstein, in which 29 Muslim worshipers were killed, the Israeli government declared both parties to be terrorist organizations.
The US State Department also added Kach and Kahane Chai to its list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. In the 2003 Knesset elections, Herut, which had split off from the National Union list, ran with Michael Kleiner and former Kach activist Baruch Marzel taking the top two spots on the list.
In the following 2006 elections, the Jewish National Front, led by Baruch Marzel, fared better, but it also failed to pass the minimum threshold.
He stood again in the 2013 elections as the second candidate on the list of Otzma LeYisrael, but the party failed to pass the minimum threshold. In 2007, the FBI released over a thousand documents relating to its daily surveillance of Kahane since the early 1960s. In 2015, Kahane's grandson, Meir Ettinger, was detained by Israeli law enforcement.
In 2008, Kahane's wife dismissed the incident as lacking proof. After D'Argenio's death, Kahane started the Estelle Donna Evans Foundation in her name.
A follower of Kahane who was involved with Kach for many years, Michael Ben-Ari, was elected to the Knesset in the 2009 elections on renewed National Union list.
He stood again in the 2013 elections as the second candidate on the list of Otzma LeYisrael, but the party failed to pass the minimum threshold. In 2007, the FBI released over a thousand documents relating to its daily surveillance of Kahane since the early 1960s. In 2015, Kahane's grandson, Meir Ettinger, was detained by Israeli law enforcement.
He stood again in the 2013 elections as the second candidate on the list of Otzma LeYisrael, but the party failed to pass the minimum threshold. In 2007, the FBI released over a thousand documents relating to its daily surveillance of Kahane since the early 1960s. In 2015, Kahane's grandson, Meir Ettinger, was detained by Israeli law enforcement.
Ettinger's writings condemned Israel's government, mainstream rabbis, and the IDF, and also have denounced Christian churches as "idolatry". In 2016, Kahane's widow claimed that modern Jewish extremists in Israel do not follow the ideology of her late husband, Rabbi Meir Kahane.
Attempts to ban the Strong Israel and Balad political parties by using the Kahane precedent were also overturned. In 2017, The Forward reported that some of Kahane's followers were aligning themselves with white nationalists and the alt-right.
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