(1932-1990) A Jewish Israeli Orthodox rabbi and political figure of American origin. Kahane immigrated to Israel in 1971 and immediately founded the Kach party, which, among other things, called for the expulsion of Palestinians from Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories as well as the revocation of Israeli citizenship from non-Jews. Arrested tens of times, Kahane spent six months in jail in 1980 for allegedly planning to kill Palestinians in response to the murders of Jewish Israeli settlers. Kach finally gained enough votes for one parliament seat in 1984, which Kahane took. He was not able to run again in 1988 as Kach had been banned from the Israeli parliament for being racist and undemocratic. The party was later banned from Israel altogether after the Hebron massacre of February 25, 1994. Kahane was assassinated in New York City in November 1990. See Gresh, Alain and Dominique Vidal. The New A-Z of the Middle East. New York: IB Tauris, 2004; and Shyovitz, David. “Rabbi Meir Kahane.” Jewish Virtual Library. 31 October 2011. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/kahane.html.  http://www.justvision.org/glossary/kahane-meir