Meir Kahane

Influencer Lizzy Savetsky called a video of Meir Kahane ‘the truth' — and set off a firestorm

The pro-Israel influencer's post quoting Rabbi Meir Kahane sparked backlash, reigniting debates over extremism in Jewish discourse.

 Ira Savetsky and Lizzy Savetsky attend a Thomas Ashbourne Craft Spirits and Fleishigs Magazine event on Sept. 18, 2022 in New York City.
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Man arrested in Toronto after claiming membership to Jewish terror group 

 SOCIAL EQUALITY and Women’s Advancement Minister May Golan attends a meeting of the Knesset plenum earlier this year. Recently, she delivered an address in which she sought to defend Michael Ben-Ari, an avowed Meir Kahane supporter who was disqualified from running for the Knesset.

'Enough': How we must stand against Kahanism in the Israeli Knesset - opinion

  Head of the Otzma Yehudit party MK Itamar Ben Gvir and members of the party meet with Israeli president Isaac Herzog at the President's Residence in Jerusalem on November 10, 2022.

President Isaac Herzog 'appreciates me very much,' Ben-Gvir says after Herzog speaks to protesters


President Herzog, anti-Bibi protesters argue Kahanism in Israeli government

President Herzog responds to demonstrators calling on him to do more for the hostages and to denounce Itamar Ben-Gvir.

 President Isaac Herzog.

Position for Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi reopens as Rabbinical Committee withdraws candidate

The Rabbinical Committee withdraws Rabbi Meir Kahane as the Religious Zionist candidate for Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi, reopening the race for the position.

 Rabbi Meir Kahane, Religious Zionist candidate for Chief Rabbi poses for a picture in Jerusalem, on June 7, 2023. Uploaded on 28/5/2024

Ehud Olmert: Ben-Gvir is an enemy of the state

Olmert, who served as prime minister from 2006 to 2009, levied the charge in an interview Saturday evening.

 Ehud Olmert, left. Itamar Ben Gvir, right.

Israeli far-right activist Bentzi Gopstein convicted of incitement to racism

Gopstein, who leads the extremist anti-Arab group Lehava, was convicted for a speech ten years ago at a memorial to the extremist Jewish rabbi Meir Kahane.

 Benzi Gopshtein speaks during an Otzma Yehudit party election campaign event in Jerusalem on July 4, 2019

Grapevine November 5, 2023: Resurgent Holocaust denial

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

David Irving, the British Holocaust-denier, speaks to Reuters during an interview in Warsaw September 21, 2010

Israel is turning into a racist, Kahanist state - Former IDF deputy chief

"These processes - of becoming a dictatorship and a radical state, are in direct contrast to the Declaration of Independence," the former military deputy said.

Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben-Gvir prior to his entry into politics can be seen speaking Israeli attorney Itamar Ben Gvir speaks during a ceremony marking the 27th anniversary of the death of Rabbi Meir Kahane, November 7, 2017

Ben-Gvir sues BDS activist for alleged libel on Kahanist operations

Gilad Sade claimed that when he was 14 years old, Ben-Gvir ordered him to sabotage vehicles belonging to the UN in Jerusalem in order to create a diplomatic incident.

 NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir speaks to the media before a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem.

Editor's Notes: The kids are not alright

Israeli teens lead the world in volunteerism and acts of selfless kindness, but there's a strain of extremism snaking its way through Israel’s youth that may change the face of the country.

 STUDENTS TAKE a matriculation exam at a high school in Jerusalem. There is a strain of extremism snaking its way through Israel’s youth that, if left unchecked, may change the face of the country for years to come (Illustrative).

High Court hears arguments against Ben-Gvir ministerial appointment

Attorney Gilad Barnea argued that Itamar Ben-Gvir's appointment was unreasonable, just like Arye Deri.

 Israeli minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir arrives for a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, for petitions against his appointment as Israeli minister of National Security, April 3, 2023.

'Kahane lives' graffitied on window of Tel Aviv LGBTQ+ Center

The slogan refers to Meir Kahane, the convicted Jewish terrorist and founder of the outlawed Kach political party.

 The message "Kahane lives" was found sprayed onto a wall of an LGBTQ+ center in Tel Aviv on April 1, 2023.

10% of Israeli Jews think terrorist Baruch Goldstein is a 'national hero' - poll

Baruch Goldstein was a Jewish settler and terrorist who massacred 29 Palestinians in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron in 1994. Some Israelis still support him.

 An ultra-orthodox Jew, in 1995, kisses the tombstone of Baruch Goldstein, the Israeli settler who in 1994 shot and killed 29 Palestinians as they prayed in a mosque in Hebron