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...army doctor and in his work at the Kiryat Arba clinic, Goldstein was a paradox: a devoted physician, but not for Arabs. "He would say, 'He's an enemy of my people. I didn't come here to treat enemies,' " recalls Barbara Ginsberg, an American official of Kach who knew Goldstein. Says Michael Guzofsky, the associate director of Kahane Chai, a splinter of the Kach Party: "In his mind, there was no such thing as an innocent Arab." Among the Palestinians of Hebron, he developed a reputation as a fierce bully who harassed Muslim worshippers at the Tomb...
...York City, Goldstein's anger appeared to deepen. In remarks at the dedication of a new Torah scroll at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, he vowed that someday a Jew would rise up and kill many Arabs in revenge for Kahane's death. Last fall Goldstein quit the Kiryat Arba council. Some neighbors say it was because the council had rejected his demand to bar new immigrants to Israel, many of them from Russia, from moving to Kiryat Arba. He felt they were not sufficiently devout...
Some who knew him say Goldstein experienced an emotional crisis in December, when two of his friends were ambushed by Arab attackers near Kiryat Arba, the West Bank settlement just outside the Palestinian city of Hebron that has long been a magnet for the most aggressive Jewish ultranationalists. As head of the local emergency medical team, Goldstein was called, and Mordechai Lapid and his 19-year-old son died in his arms. "After a number of friends and neighbors died, he considered the Arabs to be Nazis," says Kiryat Arba resident David Ramati...
After earning a medical degree at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he emigrated to Israel in 1983. He met and married a fellow Kahane supporter; Kahane himself performed the wedding ceremony. Goldstein changed his first name to Baruch and eventually settled in Kiryat Arba. In time his parents, as well as his brother and sister, followed him to the West Bank...
Rabbi Kahane had moved to Israel in 1972, and he established the extremist Kach Party two years later. When Kahane ran successfully for the Israeli parliament in 1984, Goldstein worked on his campaign. On the Kiryat Arba town council, Goldstein was considered the Kach representative, although he had not been elected officially on the party's ticket...