The American citizenship of Rabbi Meir Kahane, a Brooklyn-born member of the Israeli Knesset, has been restored by Federal District Judge Leo Glasser in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Glasser ruled Friday in a suit brought by Kahane that the State Department did not have the right to rescind Kahane’s U.S. citizenship in 1985. The State Department has argued that by serving in the legislature of another country, Kahane was voluntarily relinquishing his citizenship.
Kahane founded the Jewish Defense League in the United States and the Kach Party in Israel. He immigrated to Israel in 1971.
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