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 | | Baruch Kappel Goldstein (Hebrew: ברוךגולדשטיין, commonly pronounced as Barukh Goldshteyn) (December 9 or December 12, 1956– February 25, 1994) was a Jewish American-Israeli physician who killed 29 Muslims and injured 125 in a 1994 shooting attack in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, West Bank. |
 | | Born in Brooklyn, New York to an Orthodox Jewish family, Baruch Goldstein was a direct descendant of the Baal HaTanya, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of the Chabad Lubavitch movement. |
 | | Goldstein is best known for having killed 29 Muslims and injured 125 others during Friday prayers on Purim day, February 25th, 1994, in the Cave of the Patriarchs—the burial site of Biblical figures Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebecca, Jacob, and Leah—which is considered holy to both Muslims and Jews. |
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