A militantly anti-Arab group in Israel petitioned the country’s Supreme Court to reinstate its legal status. Kach, which was founded by U.S.-born Rabbi Meir Kahane, was outlawed after Dr. Baruch Goldstein killed 29 Palestinians worshiping at Hebron’s Tomb of the Patriarchs in February 1994.
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