Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane

Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane
בנימין זאב כהנא
Born(1966-10-03)3 October 1966
New York City, U.S.
Died31 December 2000(2000-12-31) (aged 34)
Ofra, West Bank
Cause of deathMurder (gunshot wounds)
Resting placeJerusalem
Citizenship
  • Israeli
  • American
EducationYeshiva
OccupationsRabbi, MK
Known forKahane Chai
SpouseTalia Kahane
Children6
FatherMeir HaCohen Kahane

Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane or Benyamin Zeev Kahane, sometimes called Benjamin Ze’ev Kahana (Hebrew: בנימין זאב כהנא; 3 October 1966 – 31 December 2000) was an American and Israeli Orthodox far-right rabbi and follower of his father Meir Kahane, who started the ultra-nationalist Zionist ideology called Kahanism. He was assassinated in 2000. His assassination is suspected to have been carried out by Palestinian militants part of the Force 17.

Life

Born in New York City, he emigrated to Israel with his family at the age of four, in 1971.[1] He was a young Israeli Orthodox Jewish scholar and rabbi who was most famous for his leadership of Kahane Chai, a far-right political party that broke from his father's Kach party after Meir Kahane's assassination in 1990. He was convicted several times by Israeli courts for advocating violence against Arabs.[2]

Kahane was the author of The Haggada of the Jewish Idea, a commentary based on his father's teachings of the Passover Haggadah read at the Passover Seder. He wrote a Torah portion sheet called Darka Shel Torah ("The Way of the Torah") that was distributed for the weekly Torah portions.

Death

Kahane and his wife Talia were shot and killed near the Israeli settlement of Ofra on 31 December 2000.[1][3] The ambush took place on road 60 about 15 kilometres (9+1⁄2 miles) north of Jerusalem, just before the town of Ofra. Five of the couple's six children were in the van when they were hit by automatic rifle fire. Binyamin (the driver) was killed, and the vehicle went out of control and smashed into a wall. His wife Talia died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital in Jerusalem.[4]

The Prime Minister's Office subsequently announced the arrest of three members of Force 17 – Talal Ghassan, Marzouk Abu Naim, and Na'man Nofel – who were believed to have carried out the attack under the instruction of PLO leader Col. Mahmoud Damra.[5] However, in 2007, Khaled Shawish was arrested for the attack.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Binyamin Kahane". The Guardian. 2001-01-09. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  2. ^ "State of Israel v. Binyamin Kahane" Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine. Supreme Court of Israel. 27 November 2000.
  3. ^ "The Kahanes: Like father, like son". BBC News. 31 December 2000. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  4. ^ Benari, Elad. "10 Years Later: Kahane Couple to be Remembered". Arutz 7.
  5. ^ "Fugitive to head PA Force 17". Jerusalem Post. 31 May 2006.
  6. ^ "IDF nabs Ze'ev Kahane's murderer". Jerusalem Post. 28 May 2007. Archived from the original on 17 September 2011.
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