Noam Federman
Noam Federman is a religious right-wing[1] Israeli Jew in Hebron and a former leader of the Kach Party which he has been involved with since he was 14. Federman is married to Elisheva. His father, David Federman, a Lehi fighter was arrested by the British during the League of Nations Mandate and sent to Ethiopia for his Jewish nationalist ideas, where he shared a cell with Yitzhak Shamir, a future prime minister. His brother Eli Federman shot and killed a suicide terrorist in May 2002 in Tel Aviv as a security guard before anybody could be injured or killed. In 2002, Federman was accused of providing the explosives used in an attempt to blow up an Arab girls school in East Jerusalem, arrested and put under house arrest for over half a year.[2] All charges were later dropped, Federman was acquitted and he successfully sued the state for false arrest.[3]
Federman Today
Federman hosts a weekly Internet program called "Federman Without Censor" which can be heard on the Hebrew section of the Jewish Task Force's website. JTF funds his political and humanitarian activities in Israel.[4]
In November 2005, the Israeli Ministry of Justice expressed its intention to review Federman's application to be licensed as an attorney, claiming that a person with a past as rich with disturbing the peace as his may not be eligible for a license. Federman, addressing the ministry's comment to the press, replied that it was in pattern with the courts' and prosecutor's offices past restrictive behaviour towards him that they would now seek to bar him from acquiring the title he worked for as a law student.
Federman has been held in administrative detention several times.[5][6][7]
References
- ^ Ynet Rightist plans for PM's burial
- ^ "Settlers charged with bomb plot". BBC News. 2002-5-28. Retrieved 2007-08-23.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|year=(help) - ^ "Federman awarded damages for false imprisonment". 2005-10-11. Retrieved 2007-11-10.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ JTF
- ^ Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- ^ Israel insider
- ^ JTF 17 December 2003 Federman Ends 54-Day Hunger Strike