A key player in Israel’s far-right attends a memorial for a racist rabbi.

In a memorial service for an extremist rabbi murdered in 1990, an Israeli
lawmaker from the extreme right, whose rising popularity helped bring back
former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in this week’s general election,
gave a glowing tribute on Thursday.

Itamar Ben Gvir, a legislator, has long looked up to Meir Kahane, a racist
rabbi who committed suicide. Israel expelled Kahane from parliament, and
the US designated his party as a terrorist organization due to his violent
anti-Arab rhetoric, which included calls to ban Jewish-Arab marrying and
for the mass evacuation of Palestinians. In New York, an Arab killer shot
and killed Kahane 32 years ago.