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Baruch Goldstein

Senior Israeli rabbi praises Jewish terrorist for 'stopping great danger'

Rabbi Meir Mazuz, known for his controversial views, claimed Jewish Israeli terrorist Baruch Goldstein "prevented a very great danger" by killing 29 Palestinians in Hebron.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Rabbi Meir Mazuz speaks at the campaign opening event of "Yachad Political party" in Bnei Brak, March 12, 2019.
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

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.

|ByTZVI JOFFRE
"Playing the Security Card" - B'tselem's report on IDF movement restrictions in Hebron

WATCH: NGO claims Israel forcibly transfers Palestinians from Hebron

A new report by B'tselem claims Israel has imposed a separation regime in Israeli-controlled Hebron, forcing its Palestinian residents out.

|ByLEON SVERDLOV
Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg

Protests planned for ceremony honoring far-right rabbi

|ByJEREMY SHARON