Meir Kahane

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. 

 Biography 
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. In Israel, he was convicted for plotting to blow up the Libyan embassy in Brussels. Both convictions happened in the 1970s.

 Death 
On 5 November 1990, Kahane was shot and killed by El Sayyid Nosair, an US citizen form Egypt after he had given a speech in New York. He was 58 years old.

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