Mike Guzovsky

Michael Guzovsky, commonly called Mike Guzofsky (Hebrew: מייק גוזובסקי) and Yekutiel Ben-Ya'acov (Hebrew: יקותיאל בן-יעקב) is an American-Israeli far-right activist and former politician. 

He settled at Kfar Tapuach, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank.

Guzovsky used to work for the Jewish Defense League, later on climbing the ranks of Meir Kahane's Kach movement.

He and several other American immigrants stepped up TNT's violence in 1983 arson, beatings, and on March 4, 1984, shooting a bus of Arab workers near Ramallah, wounding six. 

Guzovsky was charged with four others, one of whom was to testify for the prosecution but fled. 

Ben-Ya'akov was acquitted while the others were convicted, later on continued in leadership roles at the Kahane Chai offshoot from Kach and was jailed several times in later violence..

The Anti-Defamation League reported that by after Meir Kahane died, he passed on his mantle to friends who share similar credentials to him and his Kach party, such as Benjamin Ze'ev Kahane/Ben-Ya'akov, who led Kahane Chai offshoot in the United States where they come from, demonstrated against then Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin and for fellow Kach activist and Jewish settler in the West Bank, Dr. Baruch Goldstein,killed 29 Palestinians and wounded more than 125 others at the Cave of Machpelah.

When Rabin was assassinated in 1995, Guzovsky stated that "Rabin was bad for Jews" and said of Yigal Amir, that "An intelligent man, one like this law student, had to act.""

He has organized peaceful resistance against the dismantlement of settlements.

According to the British Government, Guzovsky is a Jewish militant and is on the list of individuals banned from entering the United Kingdom.

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