The son of Rabbi Meir Kahane, who was assassinated Nov. 5 in New York, is under investigation as a suspect in the fatal shooting of two elderly Palestinians in a village in the West Bank, according to a report Sunday in Yediot Achronot.
Police apparently believe that the murders, which took place Nov. 6, were in retaliation for the shooting of Kahane, in which an Egyptian-born man has been charged.
Yediot reported that police suspect 22-year-old Binyamin Ze’ev Kahane and another man, Lenny Goldberg, of either direct involvement in the shootings or of collaborating in the murders by getting rid of incriminating evidence.
Both men are residents of the West Bank settlement of Tapuah, which is located near the village of Lubban Sharkiya, where the two elderly Palestinians lived.
According to one theory put forward by police, Kahane left Tapuah for his parents’ home in Jerusalem with two friends after hearing of his father’s murder.
During the drive to Jerusalem, someone in the car allegedly shot the two Palestinians.
Police are still holding two other suspects in the case, David Axelrod and Ben-Zion Guffstein.
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