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Assassinations of Jewish leaders relating to Israel and Zionism has been a source of anguish and much internal debate between many Jewish groups and communities in Israel and the Jewish diaspora. Those assassinations that were carried out by non-Jewish assassins were fueled by the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict. The Jewish diaspora (Hebrew: Tefutzah, scattered, or Galut, exile) is the dispersion of the Jewish people throughout the world. ... Combatants Arab nations State of Israel Arab-Israeli conflict series History of the Arab-Israeli conflict Views of the Arab-Israeli conflict International law and the Arab-Israeli conflict Arab-Israeli conflict facts, figures, and statistics Participants Israeli-Palestinian conflict · Arab League · Soviet Union / Russia · Israel and the United Nations...
A limited number of assassinations of Jewish politicians and people in leadership positions in Israel's history occurred. The assassinations of Jacob de Haan and Chaim Arlosoroff were in the Jewish community of the British Mandate of Palestine that evolved into the State of Israel. Others were asssissnated after the State of Israel gained independence. Map of the territory under the British Mandate of Palestine. ...
These are some of the known assassinations:
Jacob Israël de Haan was assassinated by the Haganah on July 1, 1924 allegedly for his political stance, although there may have been additional factors stemming from strong feuds with others.
Chaim Arlosoroff was shot while walking with his wife Sima on a beach in Tel Aviv in 1933. Some think that it was other Zionists who disagreed with his views that did it, or that it was Arabs or British or Nazis.
Rudolf Kasztner was killed by an assassin March 15, 1957 in Tel Aviv. In the 1950s he was accused of profiting from his dealings with the Nazi occupation government in Hungary.
Meir Kahane, leader of Israel's Kach party and former member of the Knesset, was assassinated by an Islamic militant during a visit to New York City on November 5, 1990.
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