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Meir Kahane in Jerusalem in 1986 #100375246
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Meir Kahane makes an emphatic point during a speech in Jerusalem on April 27, 1986. An immigrant from Brooklyn, Kahane was an orthodox rabbi and organizer of the controversial Jewish Defense League, JDL, as a polarizing crime-fighter in Brooklyn`s orthodox Jewish community. He moved to Israel and founded the Kach Party which was eventually outlawed as an extremist and anti-democratic party because pf its extremist views, supporting expulsion of Arabs from Israel and the West Bank. He was assassinated in Manhattan at age 58 in 1990.
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