Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane (; 3 October 1966 – 31 December 2000) was an American-Israeli Orthodox rabbi and the son of Rabbi

Meir Kahane Meir David HaKohen Kahane ( ; ; born Martin David Kahane; August 1, 1932 – November 5, 1990) was an American-born Israel, Israeli Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox ordained rabbi, writer and ultra-nationalist politician. Founder of the Israeli pol ...

. He was

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in 2000. His wife, Talia, was also killed in the attack, leaving behind six young children.

Life

Born in

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, he emigrated to

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with his family at the age of four, in 1971. He was a young Israeli

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scholar and

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who was most famous for his leadership of Kahane Chai, a far-right political party that broke from his father's Kach party after Meir Kahane's assassination in 1990. He was convicted several times by Israeli courts for advocating violence against Arabs. Kahane was the author of '' The Haggada of the Jewish Idea'', a commentary based on his father's teachings of the

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read at the

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. He wrote a Torah portion sheet called ''Darka Shel Torah'' ("The Way of the Torah") that was distributed for the

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Death

Kahane and his wife Talia were shot and killed near the

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on 31 December 2000. The ambush took place on road 60 about north of Jerusalem, just before the town of Ofra. Five of the couple's six children were in the van when they were hit by automatic rifle fire. Binyamin (the driver) was killed, and the vehicle went out of control and smashed into a wall. His wife Talia died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital in Jerusalem. The Prime Minister's Office subsequently announced the arrest of three members of Force 17 – Talal Ghassan, Marzouk Abu Naim, and Na'man Nofel – who were believed to have carried out the attack under the instruction of

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leader Col. Mahmoud Damra. However, in 2007, Khaled Shawish was arrested for the attack.

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FAS Intelligence Resource Program entry for Kach and Kahane ChaiMySpace page for Binyamin Zeev Kahane
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Life

Death

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