Word: rouser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right-wing militancy have given rise to two main groups. Both originated with the Greater Israel Movement, formed in 1967 with the aim of annexing the West Bank. The most militant organization is Rabbi Meir Kahane's Kach (meaning "thus" in Hebrew), which the Brooklyn-born rabble-rouser established in Israel in 1974. Though only 30% of Kach's 400 members are Orthodox Jews, Kahane and his cohorts insist that the state of Israel should be governed according to biblical precepts. Kahane openly advocates violence to drive the Arabs out of the West Bank. One of his aims...