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{{Evil Organization |Box title = Evil Organization |Image = Flag of Kach and Kahane Chai.svg |size = |fullname = Kach and Kahane Chai |alias = The League List |origin = Israel |foundation = September 1971 |dissolution = 1994 |headquarters = Jerusalem, Israel |commanders = [[Meir Kahane]] (1971 - 1990) |Agents = [[Baruch Marzel]]<br>[[Ben-Zion Gopstein]]<br>[[Michael Ben-Ari]]<br>[[Itamar Ben-Gvir]]<br>[[Baruch Goldstein]]<br>[[Victor Vancier]]<br>[[Noam Federman]]<br>[[Mike Guzovsky]]<br>[[Avraham Toledano]] |skills = |goals = Gain a foothold in the Knesset (briefly successful, later failed)<br>Spread their views (partially successful)<br>Take total control of Israel (failed) |type of villain = Extremist Political Party}}'''Kach''' (Hebrew: ΧΧ΄Χ) was a radical Orthodox Jewish, [[Ultranationalism|ultranationalist]] political party in Israel, existing from 1971 to 1994. Founded by Rabbi [[Meir Kahane]] in 1971, based on his [[Militant Judaism|Militant Jewish]]-Orthodox-nationalist ideology (subsequently dubbed '''[[Kahanism]]'''), the party earned a single seat in the Knesset in the 1984 election, after several electoral failures. However, it was barred from participating in the next election in 1988 under the revised Knesset Elections Law banning parties that incited racism. After Kahane's assassination in 1990, the party split, with '''Kahane Chai''' (ΧΧΧ Χ ΧΧ, "Kahane Lives") breaking away from the main Kach faction. The party was also barred from standing in the 1992 election, and both organisations were banned outright in 1994. Today, both groups are considered terrorist organisations by Israel, Canada, the European Union, Japan, and the United States. The groups are believed to have an overlapping core membership of fewer than 100 people. [[Baruch Goldstein]], a longtime friend of founder Kahane, was heavily involved in Kach and is noted for perpetrating the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre during a Ramadan service in Hebron on February 25, 1994, killing 29 Palestinian Muslim worshippers and wounding another 125. The movement is admired by several far-right Israeli political parties today, including the [[Jewish National Front]], [[Eretz Yisrael Shelanu]], and [[Otzma Yehudit]]. It also had connections to the [[Jewish Defense League]] (Kahane's first group) as several Kahanists were also members of JDL and vice versa.
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