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Rabbi Meir Kahane and Israel’s far right, explained

Meir Kahane in 1985 (Bettmann/Getty Images)

(JTA) — When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brokered a partnership between the extreme right-wing party Jewish Power, or Otzma Yehudit, and the more moderate right-wing Jewish Home, the late American-born Rabbi Meir Kahane was suddenly all over the news. Kahane, whose extremist Kach party was outlawed in Israel several… Read more »