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Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane (Hebrew: בנימין זאב כהנא, born 3
October 1966, died 31 December 2000) was a rabbi and the son of
Rabbi Meir
Kahane.
Born in New York
City, he emigrated to Israel with his family at the age of four, in
1971. He was a young Israeli Orthodox Jewish scholar and rabbi 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.
Kahane was the author of The Haggadah of The Jewish
Idea, a commentary based on his father's teachings of the
Passover Haggadah
read at the Passover Seder. He
wrote a Torah portion sheet called Darka Shel Torah
("The Way of the Torah") that was distributed for the weekly Torah portions.
He and his wife Talya were shot and killed near the Israeli
settlement of Ofra on 31
December 2000. A statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office in
2001 announced the arrest of three members of Force 17 who were allegedly involved in the
killing. According to the statement, PLO leader Col.
Mahmoud Damra was responsible for arming and instructing the three
men, who were identified as Talal Ghassan (a senior Force 17 member
in Ramallah) Marzouk Abu Naim and Na'man Nofel. However, in 2007 Khaled Shawish was arrested for the attack.[1] Their 6
children are being raised by Talya's younger sister and her husband
in the families home in Kfar Tapuach.
See also
References
- ^
IDF nabs Ze'ev Kahane's
murderer Jerusalem Post, 28 May 2007
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