Baruch Marzel
Baruch Marzel | |
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ברוך מרזל | |
Marzel in 2007 | |
| Born | 23 April 1959 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Citizenship | Israeli |
| Known for | Kahanist activism |
| Political party | Kach (formerly) Jewish National Front (2004–2012) Otzma Yehudit |
Baruch Meir Marzel (Hebrew: ברוך מאיר מרזל; born 23 April 1959) is an Israeli politician and activist. He is an Orthodox Jew originally from Boston who now lives in the Jewish community of Hebron in Tel Rumeida with his wife and nine children. He was the leader of the far-right-oriented Jewish National Front party. He is now a member of Otzma Yehudit. He was the "right-hand man" of assassinated Rabbi Meir Kahane, acting as spokesman for the American-born rabbi's Kach organization for ten years. The mainstream Israeli press has described him as an "extreme right-wing activist".