Rabbi Meir Kahana founded the Jewish Defense League in New York maybe fifty years ago. The league is still considered a terrorist group by the FBI. In the meanwhile, Kahane ideas have been taking root in the Israeli "right" aka nationalist wing and now emerge from the underground to join Netaniyahu's next government. The leaders of this movement are Betzalel Smotrich, Itamar Ben Gvir, and Benzi Gopstein. Bibi's rival, Benny Ganz, tries to paint itself as a ferocious Defensor of Israel, which he may be, but am "oficialista" that is, always with the party in power, so I shall stay with Bibi.
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