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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 564

Baruch Marzel

Longtime Kahanist political figure Baruch Marzel confronts a police officer during an ultranationalist protest outside the Old City of Jerusalem, December 7, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
December 7, 2023, 11:32 pm
Police shut down ultranationalist march in Jerusalem, saying terms were violated
Small rally organized by Kahanist group was slated to traverse the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City; police said inflammatory signs and chants meant event couldn’t continue
By Jeremy Sharon
Otzma Yehudit party members Michael Ben Ari, center, Itamar Ben Gvir, right, and Baruch Marzel, left, at a press conference in response to the Supreme Court decision to disqualify Ben Ari from running in the April 2019 elections over his record of racist incitement, in Jerusalem on March 17, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 17, 2022, 11:20 am
Ultranationalists launching party to the right of Ben Gvir’s extremist Otzma Yehudit
Baruch Marzel and Michael Ben-Ari, founders of Otzma Yehudit who are both banned from running in elections due to incitement, to start new, even more extreme party
By ToI Staff
MK Itamar Ben Gvir speaks during a press conference ahead of the upcoming elections, in Ramat Gan, August 15, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 31, 2022, 9:04 pm
Ben Gvir responds to former ally’s criticism: ‘I am not Rabbi Kahane’
After Baruch Marzel accuses him of ‘flexible ideology,’ far-right Otzma Yehudit leader says party ‘is not a continuation of Kach’
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (right) meets with former US vice president Mike Pence in Jerusalem, on March 8, 2022. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
March 12, 2022, 3:11 pm
Miriam Adelson loaned Mike Pence a plane for a campaign-style tour of Israel
Former US veep was also said to be accompanied by Matt Brooks, executive director of the Republican Jewish Coalition and a confidant of Adelson
By Ron Kampeas
Former US vice president Mike Pence outside Hebron's Tomb of the Patriarchs on March 9, 2022. MK Itamar Ben-Gvir is at far right. (Mike Pence/Twitter)
March 10, 2022, 8:35 am
Pence tours Hebron, meets local Jewish settlers, runs into Ben Gvir and Marzel
Visiting West Bank city and Tomb of Patriarchs, former US vice president is greeted by far-right MK Ben Gvir and extremist activist Baruch Marzel, drawing criticism from Meretz MK
By ToI Staff
Otzma Yehudit party leaders Michael Ben Ari, left, and Baruch Marzel, in 2012. (Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90/via JTA)
August 11, 2021, 6:44 pm
Facebook bans far-right political figures Marzel, Ben Ari from its platforms
Company cites support for terror organizations Kach and Kahane Chai; Marzel says he doesn’t have an account, but may sue anyway over ‘libelous’ claim he backs terror groups
By ToI Staff
Head of the far-right Otzma Yehudit party Itamar Ben Gvir (C) with Bentzi Gopstein (R) and Baruch Marzel (L) at the launch of the party's election campaign in Jerusalem on February 15, 2020. (Sindel/Flash90)
June 9, 2021, 6:46 pm
Ben Gvir barred from Muslim Quarter march, Temple Mt. visit, amid violence fears
Far-right MK describes police decision to limit his parliamentary rights as ‘end of democracy’; cops question far-right activists Gopstein and Marzel for inciting racism
By ToI Staff
Itamar Ben Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit party, arrives at a press conference in Jerusalem on February 26, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 23, 2021, 7:56 pm
Kahane lives? What does Itamar Ben Gvir, backed by Netanyahu, really stand for?
Debate is raging over whether the PM is helping a true disciple of Meir Kahane into the Knesset, or one who is an admirer but less racist. Here’s the evidence, and why it matters
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Heba Yazbak at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem for a hearing on whether to disqualify the Ra'am-Balad party from running in the general elections, March 14, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90/File)
January 21, 2020, 1:02 pm
This time around, Arab MK Heba Yazbak could be barred from Knesset run
Central Elections Committee expected to ban Joint List lawmaker from running in March; here’s why the ban may withstand Supreme Court review
By Raoul Wootliff
Bentzi Gopstein (R) and Baruch Marzel seen during a press conference held by the Otzma Yehudit party in Jerusalem, August 26, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 26, 2019, 12:05 am
Supreme Court bans extreme-right Gopstein and Marzel from elections
Justices cite dozens of racist remarks by Otzma Yehudit Knesset hopefuls; allow rest of far-right slate as well as Joint List to run
By Jacob Magid
Right-wing activists shout at Joint (Arab) List lawmakers and candidates (unseen) as they arrive at a hearing at the High Court of Justice in Jerusalem on right-wing petitions to disqualify their parties from standing in the September 2019 election, on August 22, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 22, 2019, 6:43 pm
High Court hears petitions against Otzma Yehudit, Arab parties
Justices expected to decide Sunday whether extremist Jewish party and anti-Zionist Arab ones will be allowed to run in September election
By ToI Staff
(From L-R) Benzi Gopstein, Baruch Marzel and Michael Ben-Ari from the Otzma Yehudit Party speak with the media outside the Central Elections Committee in Jerusalem, on August 1, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
August 13, 2019, 11:01 pm
AG calls for disqualifying extremist right candidates Gopstein, Marzel
But Avichai Mandelblit, in legal opinion, says no grounds to ban Otzma Yehudit’s Itamar Ben Gvir; dismisses claims against Blue and White, Joint List
By ToI Staff
Extreme right politician Baruch Marzel at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, February 17, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
August 12, 2019, 11:50 pm
AG to urge disqualifying extremist right candidates Gopstein, Marzel
TV report says Avichai Mandelblit’s recommendation centers on the Otzma Yehudit leaders’ racist public statements
By ToI Staff
From left to right: Otzma Yehudit members Baruch Marzel, Michael Ben Ari, Rabbi Dov Lior and Itamar Ben Gvir at the extremist party's campaign launch in Jerusalem on July 4, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 5, 2019, 10:22 am
At campaign launch, extremist Jewish party calls ‘to resettle our enemies’
Otzma Yehudit takes aim at URWP chief Rafi Peretz for reportedly conditioning its inclusion in electoral alliance on sidelining two of its members
By ToI Staff
Otzma Yehudit party members Michael Ben Ari, center, Itamar Ben Gvir, right, and Baruch Marzel, left, at a press conference in response to the Supreme Court decision to disqualify Ben Ari from running in the April 2019 elections over his record of racist incitement, in Jerusalem on March 17, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 18, 2019, 5:26 am
Extremist Otzma Yehudit demands top posts after leader banned from Knesset run
After court bars Michael Ben Ari, party demands ministerial spot for Baruch Marzel in next coalition, and that Itamar Ben Gvir head key Knesset committee
By ToI Staff
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