10% of Israeli Jews think terrorist Baruch Goldstein is a 'national hero' - poll

Baruch Goldstein was a Jewish settler and terrorist who massacred 29 Palestinians in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron in 1994. Some Israelis still support him.

An ultra-orthodox Jew, in 1995, kisses the tombstone of Baruch Goldstein, the Israeli settler who in 1994 shot and killed 29 Palestinians as they prayed in a mosque in Hebron

(photo credit: REUTERS)

ByTZVI JOFFRE

MARCH 6, 2023 17:36

Updated: MARCH 6, 2023 22:17

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