Editing Baruch Goldstein (section)

==Aftermath==
Palestinian protests and riots immediately followed the shooting<ref>[https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-goldstein-massacre-and-the-danger-of-escalation/ The Goldstein massacre and the danger of escalation], ''The Times of Israel''</ref>; in the following week, twenty-five Palestinians were killed (by the Israel Defense Forces), as well as five Israelis. Following the riots, the Israeli government imposed a two-week curfew on the 120,000 Palestinian residents of Hebron, as the 400 Jewish settlers of H2 were free to move around. 

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin telephoned Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) leader [[Yasser Arafat]], and described the attack as a "loathsome, criminal act of [[murder]]". The Israeli government condemned the massacre, and responded by arresting followers of Meir Kahane, forbidding certain settlers to enter Arab towns, and demanding that those settlers turn in their army-issued rifles, though rejecting a PLO demand that settlers be disarmed and that an international force be created to protect Palestinians. Goldstein was immediately "denounced with shocked horror even by the mainstream Orthodox", and many in Israel classified Goldstein as insane.

Five days after the massacre, Lebanese terrorist [[Rashid Baz]] opened fire on a group of Jewish students in New York, killing one person. It has been suggested that this was a revenge attack for Goldstein's murder of Arabs.

Goldstein's gravesite became a pilgrimage site for Jewish extremists.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/685792.stm Graveside party celebrates Hebron massacre], ''BBC News''</ref> In 1999, after the passing of Israeli legislation outlawing monuments to terrorists, the Israeli army dismantled the shrine that had been built to Goldstein at the site of his interment.<ref>[https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2019-02-26/ty-article/.premium/25-years-after-hebron-massacre-debate-sparked-over-baruch-goldsteins-grave/0000017f-deee-df9c-a17f-fefe72c20000 25 Years After Hebron Massacre, Debate Sparked Over Burial Site of Murderer Baruch Goldstein], ''Haaretz''</ref>