* 1932 – Meir Kahane, American rabbi and activist, founder of the Jewish Defense League ( d. 1990 )

The party was less successful in the 1977 elections, in which it won 4, 396 votes, and in 1980 Kahane was sentenced to six months in prison for his involvement in a plan to commit an " act of provocation " on the Temple Mount.

In 1947 Kahane was arrested for throwing eggs and tomatoes at Bevin, as the latter disembarked at Pier 84 on a visit to New York.

His contract was not renewed and he soon published an article entitled “ End of the Miracle of Howard Beach .” This was Kahane ’ s first article in the Jewish Press, American-Jewish weekly, for which he continued to write until his murder in 1990.

In 1980, Kahane was arrested for the 62nd time since his emigration and jailed for six months following a detention order based on allegations of planning armed attacks against Palestinians in response to the killings of Jewish settlers.

Kahane claimed in the book's preface that one of his cellmates was a Bedouin from the Negev about to be released after serving an eighteen-year prison sentence for the rape and murder of a Jewish girl.

In 1987, Kahane opened a yeshiva ( HaRaayon HaYehudi ) with funding from US supporters, for the teaching of " the Authentic Jewish Idea ".

Kahane was thus the first candidate in Israel to be barred from election for racism.

" Kahane proposed a $ 40, 000 compensation plan for Arabs who would leave voluntarily, forcible expulsion " for those who don ’ t want to leave ," and encouraged retaliatory violence against Arabs who attacked Jews: " I approve of anybody who commits such acts of violence.

He resettled to the Kiryat Arba settlement in the West Bank, and was politically active for years – he saw Rabbi Meir Kahane as a hero, and had been Kahane's campaign manager when he ran for the Israeli parliament through Kahane's Kach party.

Kahane Net was formed out of the remnants of " The Kahane Movement " of Mike Guzofsky, chiefly for legal defense fundraising purposes.

The appeal cited the Kahane Chai Legal Defense Fund, a special fund licensed by the Treasury Department specifically for their legal appeal, and administered by Kach and Kahane Chai counsel Kenneth Klein, in a call for donations for " other legal battles.

When Redgrave was nominated for an Oscar in 1978, for her role in Julia, members of the Jewish Defense League ( JDL ), led by Rabbi Meir Kahane, burned effigies of Redgrave and picketed the Academy Awards ceremony to protest against both Redgrave and her support of the Palestinian cause.

A group calling itself the " Jewish Armed Resistance Movement " claimed responsibility for the arson attack ; according to the Toronto Sun, the group had ties to the Jewish Defense League and to the extremist group Kahane Chai.

Founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane in the early 1970s, and following his Jewish nationalist ideology ( subsequently dubbed Kahanism ), the party entered the Knesset in 1984 after several electoral failures.

Kahane emigrated to Israel from the United States in September 1971, at first declaring that he would only involve himself in Jewish education.

Kahane founded both the Jewish Defense League ( JDL ) in the USA and Kach (" This is the Way "), an Israeli political party.

Kahane was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York in 1932 to an Orthodox Jewish family.

At the Jewish Center, Kahane influenced many of the synagogue ’ s youngsters to adopt a more observant lifestyle.

Kahane founded the Jewish Defense League ( JDL ) in New York City in 1968.

When he moved to Israel, Kahane declared that he would focus on Jewish education.

Kahane argued that there was a glory in Jewish destiny, which came through the observance of the Torah.

Kahane also believed that a Jewish democracy with non-Jewish citizens was self-contradictory because the non-Jewish citizens might someday become a numerical majority and vote to make the state non-Jewish: " The question is as follows: if the Arabs settle among us and make enough children to become a majority, will Israel continue to be a Jewish state?

Kahanism is an nationalist ideology based on the views of Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League and the Kach party in Israel, who said that the State of Israel must defend itself against its enemies.

* Jewish Defense League, American militant-activist group founded by Meir Kahane in 1968

Kahane Net, the Jewish Defense League and B ' nai Elim ( formed by former JDL activists ) are occasionally associated with Kahanism.

One of Rahman's followers, El Sayyid Nosair, was linked to the assassination of Israeli nationalist Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League.

File: Kach poster. gif | Election poster of the historic Israeli far-right Zionist and Jewish fundamentalist Kach movement showing its leader Meir Kahane.

The presence of chemical markers such as PSA or PAP in the female genital tract has been considered evidence in rape trials, but Sensabaugh and Kahane demonstrated in four specimens that PAP was an order of magnitude greater in a woman's ejaculate than in her urine.

While Manhigut's co-founder, Shmuel Sackett, had close ties with Rabbis Meir and Binyamin Ze ' ev Kahane, there is little evidence directly connecting Feiglin with Kahane, although there are several ideological similarities between them, such as supporting " induced emigration ", developing a legal system more consistent with Halakha, and restricting Israeli citizenship to Jews.

* Nationalist terrorism may overlap with religiously-motivated terrorism, so Palestinian nationalist militant / terrorist groups are also sometimes Islamic ( Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad ), and Zionist groups are also sometimes Jewish ( Kach and Kahane Chai, Gush Emunim Underground ).

Kahane Park is named for Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of Kach, a far right political party, who was assassinated in the United States by an Arab gunman.

Kahane was killed in a Manhattan hotel by an Arab gunman in November 1990 after Kahane concluded a speech warning American Jews to emigrate to Israel before it was " too late.

Kahane often pejoratively called other Knesset members " Hellenists " in Hebrew ( a reference to Jews who assimilated into Greek culture after Judea's occupation by Alexander the Great ).

In November 1990, following a speech to an audience of mostly Orthodox Jews from Brooklyn, as a crowd of well-wishers gathered around Kahane in the second-floor lecture hall in midtown Manhattan's Marriott East Side Hotel, Kahane was assassinated.

When critics suggested this would mean perpetual war between Jews and Arabs, Kahane answered, " There will be a perpetual war.

" Meir Kahane did not hate the Arabs – he just loved the Jews ", said his widow Libby in her November 20, 2010 TV interview.

After Kahane's assassination in 1990, the party split, with Kahane Chai (, lit.

Kahane Lives ) breaking away from the main Kach faction.

Martin David Kahane (; 1 August 1932 – 5 November 1990 ), also known as Meir Kahane (), was an American-Israeli rabbi and ultra-nationalist writer and political figure.

Kahane also used the pen names Benyac and David Sinai and the pseudonyms Michael King, David Borac, and Martin Keene.

His father, Rabbi Charles Kahane, studied in Polish and Czech yeshiva religious schools and was involved in the Revisionist Zionism movement, he was a close friend of Zev ( Vladimir ) Jabotinsky.

Kahane ’ s formal education included elementary school at the Yeshiva of Flatbush and high school at the Brooklyn Talmudical Academy.

Kahane received his rabbinical ordination from the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn, and earned a B. A.

In 1956, Kahane married Libby, with whom he had four children.

In the late 1950s to early 1960s, Kahane led a life of secrecy.

In 1971, Kahane emigrated to Israel.