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Meir David HaKohen Kahane was an American-born Israeli ordained Orthodox rabbi, writer, and ultra-nationalist politician who served one term in Israel's Knesset before being convicted of acts of terrorism. He founded the Israeli political party Kach. A cofounder of the Jewish Defense League (JDL), he espoused strong views against antisemitism.
The surname Katzenellenbogen originated in the Rhineland, Germany. The surname is derived from the County of Katzenelnbogen and the Castle Katzenelnbogen. The origin of the name may come from Chatti Melibokus. Chatti Melibokus is an old tribe who reside in the southern part of the mountains in the Bergstraße region, which is part of Hesse in Germany.
Heifetz is a Jewish surname from Belarus and Lithuania. It derives from Hebrew חפץ. It is unrelated to the similar-sounding Arabic name حافظ. It is also spelled Chafets, Chaffetz, Chaifetz, Cheifetz, Chejfec, Chofets. It may refer to:
Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane was an Israeli Orthodox rabbi and the son of Rabbi Meir Kahane.
Cohn is a Jewish surname.
Mordechai Tzemach Eliyahu, was an Israeli rabbi, posek, and spiritual leader.
Feinstein, Finestein or anglicized as Finestone, meaning "fine stone", that is gemstone, is a compound surname of German and Yiddish origin, similar to names like Goldstein or Rubinstein which is relatively wide spread among Ashkenazi Jews. It may refer to:
Segal, and its variants including Sagal, Segel, Sigal or Siegel, is a family name which is primarily Ashkenazi Jewish.
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Kaplinsky or Kaplinski is a Polish surname of Jewish origin. The surname is derived from the Polish word kaplan which became vernacular equivalent of the word Kohen, which, in turn, is a Hebrew word for priest. Notable people with the surname include:
Ashkenazi is a surname of Jewish origin. It originated in the 13th century, when Ashkenazi Jews immigrated to Muslim-ruled Spain, settling in with the local Sephardic Jewish community. After the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492, they resettled with the rest of the Sephardic community throughout North Africa, Italy and the Ottoman Empire. Thus, today the name is almost exclusively associated with Jews of Sephardic origin, despite what the name itself suggests, and is most common in Israel, where most Jews of Sephardic origin live.
Cohen, also spelled Cohn, Kohn, or Kahn, is a surname of Yehudi, Samaritan and Biblical origins. It is a very common Jewish surname, and the following information discusses only that origin. Cohen is one of the four Samaritan last names that exist in the modern day. Many Jewish immigrants entering the United States or United Kingdom changed their name from Cohen to Cowan, as Cowan was a Scottish name. The name "Cohen" is also used as a given name.
Meir is a Jewish male given name and an occasional surname. It means "one who shines". It is often Germanized as Maier, Mayer, Mayr, Meier, Meyer, Meijer, Italianized as Miagro, or Anglicized as Mayer, Meyer, or Myer. Notable people with the name include:
The Haggada of the Jewish Idea, or Haggadah of the Jewish Idea is a book written by Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane based on his commentary of the classic Passover Haggada, which is based on his father, Rabbi Meir Kahane's teachings of the "Jewish Idea". The book's commentary focuses on the "Jewish Idea" in general, particularly the concept of faith in God. It also focuses on the approach to Passover, and the nighttime Seder which would, "define the faith of the Jew."
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Kahanism is an extremist religious Zionist ideology based on the views of Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League and the Kach party in Israel.
Kach was a radical Orthodox Jewish, religious Zionist political party in Israel, existing from 1971 to 1994. Founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1971, based on his Jewish-Orthodox-nationalist ideology, the party earned a single seat in the Knesset in the 1984 election, after several electoral failures. However, it was barred from participating in the next election in 1988 under the revised Knesset Elections Law banning parties that incited racism. After Kahane's assassination in 1990, the party split, with Kahane Chai breaking away from the main Kach faction.
David Ha'ivri is an Israeli and an independent political strategist, who focuses on foreign relations, he has worked closely with Christian Zionists and leading politicians in Washington DC. He emigrated as a child with his family from the United States to Israel at the age of 11, completed high school, and served in the IDF. Ha'ivri is an Orthodox Jew, and lives with his wife and eight children in Kfar Tapuach in the West Bank. He is a religious Zionist leader, writer, and speaker. In November 2018 Ha'ivri was elected to the Shomron Regional Municipal council and in May 2021 he was elected as Second to the Chairman of the Council.
Kiryat Itri is a Haredi neighborhood in Jerusalem. It is located on the northern edge of the mountain plateau on which central Jerusalem lies.
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