Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane
Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane ( Hebrew בנימין זאב כהנא; born October 3, 1966 in New York City ; died December 31, 2000 in Kfar Tapuach ) was an Israeli-American Orthodox rabbi and extremist Zionist . He was the son of Rabbi Meir Kahane .
Life
Binyamin studied at the Yeshiva Merkas HaRaw Kook and together with his father founded the Yeshivat Ha Ra'yon Ha Yehudi in Jerusalem in 1987. After his father was killed in an assassination attempt in 1990, the Kach movement split into the similar parties Kach and Kahane Chai . Kach was continued by Baruch Marzel . Binyamin headed the extremist Kahane Chai party until it was banned in 1994. He has been sentenced to prison terms several times for anti-Arab crimes.
On December 31, 2000, Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane and his wife Talya were shot dead in Kfar Tapuach on their way back from Jerusalem, and five of their six children were seriously injured. Armed Palestinians fired more than 60 machine gun bullets into their pickup truck.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: www.mfa.gov )
- ↑ Kahane, wife killed by terrorists , Jerusalem Post. January 1, 2001. Archived from the original on April 15, 2011.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kahane, Binyamin Ze'ev |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | בנימין זאב כהנא (Hebrew) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli-American Zionist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd October 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 2000 |
| Place of death | Kfar Tapuach |