Police raided the Jerusalem headquarters of the anti-Arab Kach movement Sunday and, in coordinated moves, arrested seven Kach activists involved in the formation of what they call the State of Judah.
Among those arrested was Baruch Marzel, the secretary of the Kach movement and one of the key figures behind Kach’s activities in the past few years.
Yekutiel Ben-Yaacov and Tiran Polack were detained in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba. Michael Ben-Horin was detained in the settlement of Nov, in the Golan Heights.
Plans to establish a State of Judah in the West Bank were launched by the Kach movement about a year ago as a protest against the “failure of the authorities to put an end to the intifada.”
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