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Itamar Ben Gvir (; born 1976) is a leader of and the spokesman for The Chayil Party, a right-wing Jewish party in Israel.

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Among its goals are the transfer of all Non-Jews in Israel who object to Israel as a Jewish state. A member of the Kach
Kach

Kach is town and Union Councils of Pakistan of the Ziarat District in the Balochistan province of Pakistan. It is located at 30?26'2N 67?19'27E and has an altitude of 2020m ....
 Party since the age of 14, Ben Gvir denies that there is a such thing as current membership, citing government harassment as impeding that.






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Itamar Ben Gvir (; born 1976) is a leader of and the spokesman for The Chayil Party, a right-wing Jewish party in Israel.

Party Policy


Among its goals are the transfer of all Non-Jews in Israel who object to Israel as a Jewish state. A member of the Kach
Kach

Kach is town and Union Councils of Pakistan of the Ziarat District in the Balochistan province of Pakistan. It is located at 30?26'2N 67?19'27E and has an altitude of 2020m ....
 Party since the age of 14, Ben Gvir denies that there is a such thing as current membership, citing government harassment as impeding that. Nevertheless, he and his colleagues, mainly the former Kach leaders Noam Federman
Noam Federman

Noam Federman is a religious right-wing Israelis Jew in Hebron and a former leader of the Kach Party which he has been involved with since he was 14....
 and Baruch Marzel
Baruch Marzel

Baruch Marzel is an United States-born Israeli, Orthodox Jew and leading right-wing politician. He lives in the Committee of The Jewish Community of Hebron in Tel Rumeida with his wife and nine children....
, remain the students of their teacher and leader, Kach founder and ideologue Rabbi Meir Kahane, as the basis of their arguments.

Rise to Prominence


Since the 1990 assassination of Rabbi Kahane in New York, Marzel has been the de facto political leader of the former Kach activists. Today, Ben-Gvir is the spokesman and youth organizer and Federman is the most aggressive activist in the field and the spiritual leader of The Hilltop Youth
Hilltop Youth

Hilltop Youth is the term commonly used for several nationalist youth groups in Israel. The groups are influenced by religious Zionist ideals. Their spiritual leader is Avri Ran, though he does not see himself as such and the group's philosophy is a mix of contempt for the Israeli government and a desire for a restored Jewish monarchy....
. Ben Gvir has often been accused of incitement for the fierce verbal attacks he throws against political figures, almost always calling them in some way traitors. Ben Gvir is a fixture of settler violence against Palestinians living near Jewish settlements in the occupied territories.

Since the February 25, 1994 massacre of Palestinians in Hebron by Dr. Baruch Goldstein
Baruch Goldstein

Baruch Kappel Goldstein was an United States born Israelis physician who perpetrated the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in the city of Hebron, killing 29 Muslims at prayer in the Ibrahimi Mosque and wounding another 150 in a shooting attack....
 security authorities have increased their pressure and surveillance of Ben-Gvir and fellow activists. He has boasted that he was detained in prison more times than he can count, but maintains that every detention was administrative, meaning that he never received trial, and that therefore this constitutes state harassment. Ben-Gvir's causes have often led to media frenzies. A notorious incident was one in Jerusalem in the 1990s when he chased senior Palestinian Authority official Muhammad Dahlan using an Israeli flag as his weapon, a scene that humiliated both local security officials and Dahlan's bodyguards. Ben-Gvir recently led protests during the visit of German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, denouncing the hanging of German flags for the state visit. He claims that the German state doesn't deserve any special honours in the country where its victims' descendants found refuge.

Obama Visit


On July 24, 2008, Israeli newspaper Yediot Achronot reported that Ben-Gvir marred a visit by Senator Barack Obama
Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II is the List of Presidents of the United States and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office....
 to Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
's Western Wall
Western Wall

The Western Wall , sometimes referred to as the Wailing Wall or simply the Kotel , and as al-Buraq Wall by Muslims, is an important Jewish religious site located in the Old City ....
 by heckling the Illinois
Illinois

The State of Illinois is a U.S. state of the United States, the 21st to be admitted to the United States. Illinois is the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern United States state and the fifth most populous state in the nation....
 senator:

"The only interruption to the otherwise calm visit was by extreme-right activist Itamar Ben-Gvir, who shouted "Jerusalem is not for sale!" at the senator's entourage."

Sternhell

On the terrorist attack on Zeev Sternhell
Zeev Sternhell

Zeev Sternhell is an Israeli historian and one of the world's leading experts on Fascism. Sternhell headed the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and writes for Haaretz newspaper....
, Ben-Gvir has said "I don't denounce this incident, but say categorically that we are not involved."

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