Baruch Marzel
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Baruch Marzel is an American born right-wing Israeli settler from Hebron. He was a member of Meir Kahane's Kach, which was disqualified by the Israeli Supreme Court from running in the 1988 Israeli elections because it advocated the deportation of the Arabs. Following Kahane's assassination in 1990, he moved to lead Kach, one of the splinter groups from the original Kach (the other splinter group, Kahane Chai, was led by Kahane's son Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane). Both groups were declared 'terrorist' and outlawed in 1994 following the Mosque of Abraham massacre. In 2003, Marzel joined Herut and Paul Eidelberg's Yamin Israel party to become the number two candidate on the party list after Michael Kleiner in the bid to enter the 16th Knesset session. The election ads featured him prominently with the slogan strong and blessed ((Template:Lang-he), Hazak U'Baruch, a pun on Marzel's name). Herut failed to pass the minimum threshold of voters to enter the Knesset, but only by a small margin. In 2004, he founded the Chayil Party (Jewish National Front) and headed its Knesset list in the March 2006 national elections but his party receive 24824 votes, about 40% of the required minimum to enter the Knesset. Marzel livs in Hebron with wife and nine children.
During the March 2006 election campaign[1], Marzel called on the government to "carry out a targeted killing against [Israeli journalist and activist] Uri Avneri and his leftist collaborators." Marzel was referring to Avneri who had claimed that the assasination of Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi was a legitimate targeted killing executed by the Palestinians against an adversary.