Word: benyamin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Kahane was alive, Kach was the natural home for Jewish extremists. But after his 1990 assassination in New York City, the group splintered badly. Kahane's son Benyamin formed an offshoot, Kahane Chai (Kahane Lives), and took many of the original Kach activists with him to settlements in the West Bank, where he preaches--less charismatically--the same message his father did. While the group frequently harasses Palestinians and is suspected of having murdered several, its core activity is inciting Israeli Jews, touching off noisy demonstrations that often make the TV news...