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  Kach and Kahane Chai - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Kach (כ"ך - kakh, acronym of כהנא לכנסת Kahana LaKneset "Kahane to the Knesset", alluding to the Irgun motto rak kakh: "only thus") was a far-right political party in Israel founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane.
Kach was originally led by Rabbi Avraham Toledano and later by Baruch Marzel out of Hebron.
Kahane Chai was led by Meir's son Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane out of Kfar Tapuach until he and his wife were murdered in a random ambush by Palestinians in 2000.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Kach   (1784 words)

  
 Kach Kahane Chai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Kach (founded by radical Israeli-American rabbi Meir Kahane) and its offshoot Kahane Chai, which means "Kahane Lives," (founded by Meir Kahane’s son Binyamin following his father’s assassination in the United States) were declared to be terrorist organizations in March 1994 by the Israeli Cabinet under the 1948 Terrorism Law.
Palestinian gunmen killed Binyamin Kahane and his wife in a drive-by shooting in December 2000 in the West Bank.
Kach has harassed and threatened Arabs, Palestinians, and Israeli Government officials.
www.fas.org /irp/world/para/kach.htm   (177 words)

  
 Kach
Kach and Kahane Chai are radical Jewish organizations.
Kahane appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court, but it supported the law and he was forced out of the Knesset.
Kahane Chai was led by Meir's son Binyamin until he was murdered in 2000.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ka/Kach.html   (243 words)

  
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Kach appealed to the High Court of Justice, and its appeal was upheld.
Recent reports say Kach and Kahane Chai have an overlapping core membership of several dozen as well as a larger number—perhaps several hundred—of less committed supporters that includes both native-born Israelis and radicalized immigrants from the United States and elsewhere.
In April 2002, Israeli police arrested a former Kach spokesman in connection with an attempt to leave an explosive-packed trailer outside a Palestinian girls’ school and hospital in East Jerusalem, but experts say the plot was arranged by individuals affiliated with another Jewish extremist group that is not affiliated with Kach or Kahane Chai.
www.angelfire.com /pro/cora/KACH_KAHANE_CHAI.htm   (1395 words)

  
 Kach
The party participated in the 1984 elections, where it won a single seat (held by Kahane) in the Knesset.
Kahane appealed to the Israeli High Court of Justice, but it supported the law and he was not allowed to participate in the following 1988 elections.
Kahane Chai was led by Meir's son Binyamin until he was killed in an ambush by Palestinian terrorists in 2000.
www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/k/ka/kach.html   (281 words)

  
 Middle East Glossary - The Israel Project
Kach was formed by the late Meir Kahane; Kahane Chai ("Kahane Lives") was formed after Kahane's 1990 assassination.
On the grounds that the Kach party was racist, the Israeli government banned its members from serving in the Knesset.
KAHAN COMMISSION - In response to public outrage and grief over killings in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon, the Israeli government formed an inquiry board that found Israel was indirectly responsible for not anticipating the possibility that a Lebanese Christian militia might take revenge against Palestinians in the camps.
www.theisraelproject.org /site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=hsJPK0PIJpH&b=886017&ct=1181583   (526 words)

  
 Terrorism - In the Spotlight: Kach and Kahane Chai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Kach and Kahane Chai are perhaps two of the best-known Israeli groups who use terrorist tactics to promote their agenda, but their amorphous membership links them to a number of smaller groups, including Eyal.
Kach and Kahane Chai stemmed from the anti-Arab teachings of Rabbi Meir Kahane, who founded and led Kach until his assassination in 1990.
His son Binyamin Kahane took up the cause, forming the offshoot group Kahane Chai (Hebrew for "Kahane Lives"), while Baruch Marzel headed the Kach movement.
www.cdi.org /terrorism/kach.cfm   (652 words)

  
 Rabbi Meir Kahane
Under the auspices of Kach, Kahane continued to lobby for his beliefs in violent ways, and was jailed on several occasions.
Kahane ran for Knesset and lost in 1976 and 1980, and was finally elected in 1984.
In March 1994, the Kach party and its offshoot, Kahane Chai ("Kahane Lives"), founded by Kahane's son Binyamin Zev, were officially designated as terrorist organizations by both the Israeli government and the U.S. State Department.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/kahane.html   (589 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Kach was founded on two main principles: the forcible transfer of anti-Israelis/anti-Jews and to make Judaism the law of Israel.
In 1985, Kach won 1 seat in the Knesset with Rabbi Kahane as their only representative and where expected to win a lot more in the next election.
Kach brought their case to the Israeli Supreme Court and were to be continued to be banned for racism.
www.freewebs.com /correcting-israel/kach.htm   (187 words)

  
 History
Kahane established the JDL as a militant group that encouraged Jewish assertiveness and extreme activism with such slogans as "every Jew a.22." Originally formed to challenge African-American anti-Semitism, the JDL would later target politicians from the Soviet-bloc nations, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Arab sovereignties, and Jewish organizations it considered to be liberal.
Early Kach activism included organized protests against Israeli policy, and although no responsibility was claimed for anti-Arab violence, Kahane was sentenced to six months in prison for collaborating to plan a provocative attack on the sacred Temple Mount in 1980.
By 1984 Kach held several seats on local city councils in the West Bank, and after nearly a decade of electoral misfortune Meir Kahane was elected to the Knesset (Israel's parliament).
www.filebox.vt.edu /users/josimpso/Kach.htm   (1057 words)

  
 Terrorism101 : Terrorist Organizations : Kach and Kahane Chai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Kach, founded by radical Israeli-American rabbi Meir Kahane, and its offshoot Kahane Chai, (translation: "Kahane Lives"), founded by Meir Kahane’s son Binyamin following his father’s 1990 assassination in the United States, were declared terrorist organizations in 1994 by the Israeli Cabinet under Israel’s Terrorism Law.
Kach has harassed and threatened Arabs, Palestinians, and Israeli Government officials, and has vowed revenge for the death of Binyamin Kahane and his wife.
Kach is suspected of involvement in a number of low-level attacks since the start of the al-Aqsa intifada in 2000.
www.terrorism101.org /organizations/Kach_Kahane_Chai.html   (212 words)

  
 Terror Groups Exposed : Fool Moon
Kahane Chai carries on with the “work” of Kach and has stated goals of harassing and killing Palestinians and even Israeli officials it deems not sufficiently devoted to the re-establishment of an “historical” Israel.
Both Kach and Kahane Chai were outlawed as terrorist groups in March of 1994 under the provisions of Israel’s 1948 Terrorism Law.
Although Kach won a single seat in the Knesset in 1984, it has not been in the Knesset since then because the Basic Law (Israel’s equivalent to a Constitution) was amended, in part due to Kach’s gaining a seat, to prohibit the election of “racist parties” to the Knesset.
foolmoon.com /showthreaded.php?Number=155222   (623 words)

  
 Green Left - UNITED STATES: Court upholds terrorist label for Zionist group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Kach was disqualified from running candidates to the Israeli parliament in 1988 by the Israeli Supreme Court on the grounds that its principles were an “incitement to racism”.
Kach and Kahane Chai are part of the fanatical, messianic Jewish settler movement in Israel, with strongholds in the illegal Israeli settlements of Kiryat Arba (near Hebron) and Tapuach (near Nablus).
Kach and Kahane Chai, however, are just the latest in a long line ultra-Zionist terrorist groups that have existed since the beginning of the 20th century — starting with Brith Habirionim, which carried out a range of attacks on Jewish socialists and Arab Palestinians in Ottoman-controlled Palestine.
www.greenleft.org.au /2006/688/35720   (530 words)

  
 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Kahane Chai (Kach), an Israeli-based extremist organization that promotes violence against Palestinians, has been added to the list of terrorist groups that are banned in Canada.
Kahane Chai (Kach) “is a group of Jewish terrorists whose overall aim is to restore the biblical state of Israel.
It described Kach and Kahane Chai (they are listed as a single group by the Canadian government) as “marginal Israeli groups that have used terrorism to pursue their goals of expanding Jewish rule across the West Bank and expelling the Palestinians.
www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=6500   (568 words)

  
 Binyamin Kahane | Israel and the Middle East | Guardian Unlimited
Kahane Chai has often acknowledged responsibility for attacks on, and murders of, Palestinians, and Binyamin and his ilk paraded throughout the occupied territories with apparent impunity, armed and unchallenged by the Israeli defence forces - while Arabs felt robbed and discriminated against on their native soil.
Kahane claimed his "true believers" possessed the "miracle" of knowing God's true intentions; it was a Kahane sympathiser, Yigal Amir, who murdered the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 - an attack which heralded a renewed crackdown on Binyamin and his officially outlawed supporters.
Binyamin Kahane was investigated for sedition, banned from running for the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, in 1992, jailed for six months in 1998, and repeatedly accused of assault and instigating violent anti-peace demonstrations.
www.guardian.co.uk /israel/Story/0,2763,419684,00.html   (678 words)

  
 Kach and Kahane Chai - Cleverpedia, the ultimate encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The activities of Kach and of Kahane Chai go beyond pure threat and the execution of protests however.
Kahane Chai was led first by Kahanes son Binyamin, until this was killed in the year 2000 in an ambush by militant Palestinians.
On 4 August 2005 the 19-jährige Eden Natan Zada, member of the Kach movement shot, in a bus in Schfaram 5 Arabs and hurt 12 further.
cleverpedia.com /Kach_and_Kahane_Chai   (388 words)

  
 Terror Label No Hindrance to Anti-Arab Jewish Group   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Kahane political organizations, Kach and Kahane Chai, were outlawed in Israel in 1994 as terrorist groups because of their Arab-hating doctrines, though members of the group are still seen organizing anti- Arab demonstrations and handing out literature.
Lustic said the Kahane followers in Brooklyn, by continuing their work in part as a charitable organization, have been able to draw donations from mainstream Jews who were probably not aware of the terrorist connection.
Kahane was the leader of Kahane Chai when it was banned in Israel in 1994, and his biography posted on www.kahane.org identifies him as "the recognized leader" of his father's movement.
www.library.cornell.edu /colldev/mideast/kahater.htm   (1761 words)

  
 terrorists-suck.org: Kahane Chai
Kach (founded by radical Israeli- American rabbi Meir Kahane) and its offshoot Kahane Chai, which means “Kahane Lives,” (founded by Meir Kahane’s son Binyamin following his father’s assassination in the United States) were declared terrorist organizations in March 1994 by the Israeli Cabinet under the 1948 Terrorism Law.
Palestinian gunmen killed Binyamin Kahane and his wife in a drive-by shooting in December 2000 in the West Bank.
Kahane Chai and Kach were first designated separately in October 1997.
www.terrorists-suck.org /groups/kahane_chai.html   (187 words)

  
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Initially, Kach was led by Meir Kahane Meir Kahane.
The party participated in the 1984 elections, where it won a single seat (held by Kahane) in the Knesset Knesset.
www.biodatabase.de /Kach   (316 words)

  
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Kahane's assassination in 1990 greatly weakened the movement, particularly in the U.S. where few followers remain.
Since the onset of the second intifada in 2000, former Kach and Kahane Chai members have opposed a negotiated peace with the Palestinians through physical confrontations and violent means.
Kahane Chai is designated by the U.S. as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
www.adl.org /terrorism/symbols/kahane_2.asp   (464 words)

  
 Kach and Kahane Chai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Following the stopping of Kach and Kahane Chai the movements officially disbanded.
The New Kach Movement existed during the period 2001 2003.
Binyamin Kahane (founder of Kach offshoot Kahane Chai)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kahane_Chai   (1757 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Kach and Kahane Chai
The group's activities consist mainly of maintaining the "Official Kahane Website" The Kahane Movement is listed on the United States' list of terrorist organizations as an alias for "Kach" though the group denies this.
Noam Federman, a leader of Kach and resident of Hebron in connection with the attempted bombing of a girls’ school in East Jerusalem
In the 1980s The Makhteret, a militant group with links to Kach, staged several attacks against Palestinian officials who were claimed to have spearheaded various terrorist attacks against Israelis.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Kach_and_Kahane_Chai   (1609 words)

  
 Kach Movement (Israel)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Kahane was eventually killed in the USA, and his movement split into two fractions.
Kahane's son was killed last year and the two movements work more or less together nowadays.
Kahane Chai flipped the colors &151;yellow on fl&151; but its flag was still fl on yellow.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/il}kakh.html   (961 words)

  
 Kahane assasinated   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Binyamin Kahane, son of Rabbi Meir Kahane, and his wife was killed on December 2000 in an ambush near the settlement of Ofra.
Reexamination of classification of the organizations "Kach" and "Kahane Chai" as terrorist organizations.
In the past, the organizations "Kach" and "Kahane Chai" were classified terrorist organization, among other things, as an extension of the decision of the Supreme Court that confirmed the invalidation of the "Kach" list headed by the late Rabbi Meir Kahane.
www.shofar.de /kach-e.html   (257 words)

  
 Where the Killer Is a Victim
The Kach movement advocated the forcible removal of Arabs from all of Israel, including the disputed areas of Gaza and the West Bank, and advocated the creation of a theocracy to rule Israel that would ban marriage between Arabs and Jews.
The Kach political party was banned in 1988 and declared a terrorist organization by Israel in 1994.
Kach was led by Meir Kahane until he was killed in New York by an Egyptian militant in 1990.
conwebwatch.tripod.com /stories/2005/wndgaza.html   (932 words)

  
 Kach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Kach, which means "Thus," was a fundraising vehicle for Rabbi Kahane; it was never an activist organization in the United States.
Kach and its offshoot Kahane Chai, which means "Kahane Lives" (founded by Binyamin following his father's assassination), were declared to be terrorist organizations in March 1994 by the Israeli Cabinet under the 1948 Terrorism Law.
The legacy of Kahane Chai is the Judean Voice, a Jewish news service and periodical published by Mike Guzofsky.
webhome.idirect.com /~mullen/TG_Kach.htm   (185 words)

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