The Rabbinical Committee withdraws Rabbi Meir Kahane as the Religious Zionist candidate for Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi, reopening the race for the position.
Olmert, who served as prime minister from 2006 to 2009, levied the charge in an interview Saturday evening.
Gopstein, who leads the extremist anti-Arab group Lehava, was convicted for a speech ten years ago at a memorial to the extremist Jewish rabbi Meir Kahane.
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.
"These processes - of becoming a dictatorship and a radical state, are in direct contrast to the Declaration of Independence," the former military deputy said.
Gilad Sade claimed that when he was 14 years old, Ben-Gvir ordered him to sabotage vehicles belonging to the UN in Jerusalem in order to create a diplomatic incident.
Israeli teens lead the world in volunteerism and acts of selfless kindness, but there's a strain of extremism snaking its way through Israel’s youth that may change the face of the country.
Attorney Gilad Barnea argued that Itamar Ben-Gvir's appointment was unreasonable, just like Arye Deri.
The slogan refers to Meir Kahane, the convicted Jewish terrorist and founder of the outlawed Kach political party.
Baruch Goldstein was a Jewish settler and terrorist who massacred 29 Palestinians in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron in 1994. Some Israelis still support him.
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