Baruch Goldstein
American-Israeli doctor, perpetrator of the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre (1956-1994)
Biography
Baruch Kopel Goldstein was an American-Israeli physician and religious extremist who, in 1994, murdered 29 Palestinians in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, an incident of Jewish terrorism. Goldstein was a supporter of Kach, a religious Zionist party that the United States, the European Union and other countries designate as a terrorist organization. Kach was banned less than a month after Goldstein's attacks on account of statements made in support of his actions.
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Baruch Goldstein is recorded as a kahanist, a politician and a physician, born in New York (1956–1994).
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