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Kahane Chai

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and his wife Ayala attend a conference called "Israel's return to the Temple Mount," at the Knesset, July 24, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 26, 2025, 10:18 pm
Ayala Ben Gvir says she feels like ‘reservist’s wife’ as far-right minister tours US
Opposition MK tells wife of the Otzma Yehudit leader, who was barred from IDF service over his extremism, that she is ‘not a reservist’s wife, you’re the wife of a convicted felon’
By ToI Staff
Head of the Otzma Yehudit party MK Itamar Ben Gvir at a ceremony honoring late Jewish extremist leader Rabbi Meir Kahane in Jerusalem on November 10, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
November 10, 2022, 11:17 pm
US blasts ‘abhorrent’ celebration of Kahane after prospective minister attends
Public rebuke by State Department spokesman is first by Biden official aimed at far-right lawmaker Ben Gvir, who is aiming to become next police minister
By Jacob Magid
Illustrative: A teen holds up a flag which reads 'We are all Kahane' at a protest in support of a soldier charged with manslaughter in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on April 19, 2016. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
May 21, 2022, 2:40 am
US removes radical Jewish group Kach, 4 others from list of terror organizations
State Department says organizations no longer engage in terrorism and do not have capability and intent to do so
By Matthew Lee
Illustrative: Right wing activists attend a ceremony honoring late Jewish extremist leader Rabbi Meir Kahane in Jerusalem on November 17, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
May 15, 2022, 8:47 pm
US set to remove Kahane’s ‘Kach’ group from foreign terrorism blacklist
State Department notifies Congress that five defunct groups, including the Jewish extremist movement, to have designation dropped; Palestinian jihadist group also to be delisted
By AP and Jacob Magid
Benzi Gopstein, chairman of the far-Right group Lehava seen in Kfar Qasim, October 5, 2021. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
October 15, 2021, 1:36 am
Far-right Israeli individuals and groups appear on extensive Facebook blacklist
Bentzi Gopstein and his Lehava organization are among several Jewish and Israeli groups banned from social media platform, alongside Islamic terrorists and neo-Nazi organizations
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
Itamar Ben Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit party, holds a press conference in Jerusalem on February 26, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 4, 2021, 7:42 pm
Why is Netanyahu trying (again) to push Kahanists into the Knesset?
The PM is courting censure by helping Israel’s most extremist faction, and its leader isn’t even a reliable ally. But the move could pay off when it’s time to build a coalition
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Meir Kahane in 1985 (Bettmann/Getty Images)
March 1, 2019, 12:51 pm
Rabbi Meir Kahane and Israel’s far right, explained
Understanding the predecessor to today’s Otzma Yehudit party — and his ideology — requires a look at his past
By Emily Burack
Baruch Marzel, with beard, speaking to the press with attorney Itamar ben Gvir at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on February 17, 2015. (Photo credit: Hadas Parush/FLASH90)
February 18, 2015, 8:07 pm
The extremist who could bring Kahanism back to the Knesset
Having survived a bid to bar him, Boston-born ultra-nationalist Baruch Marzel is set to become an MK, though his dreams of expelling Israel’s Arabs are seen more as empty threats than actual danger
By Raphael Ahren
Carmi Gillon. (photo credit: Orel Cohen/Flash90)
May 4, 2014, 1:43 pm
Ex-security head slams successor over ‘price tag’ inaction
Construction site outside of Jerusalem covered in graffiti and vehicle vandalized in Yokne’am, as hate attacks persist
By ToI Staff
'Price tag' graffiti, saying 'Kahane was right,' sprayed onto a shed in a construction zone in Kiryat Ye'arim outside Jerusalem, on Sunday, May 4, 2014. (Photo credit: Flash 90)
May 4, 2014, 11:32 am
‘Price tag’ graffiti found outside Jerusalem in latest hate attack
Suspected Jewish extremists paint anti-Arab slogans at construction site in Kiryat Ye’arim
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (photo credit: Courtesy)
September 3, 2013, 7:32 pm
Celebrity rabbi never knew about death threats
Kahane Chai activist posted inciting messages against Shmuley Boteach in 2007 and 2008, Tablet reports
By JTA
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