Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader of the Jewish Defense League, began a hunger strike outside the U.S. Embassy here Wednesday. His followers claimed that Israeli authorities were acting at the request of the U.S. government when they refused to return Kahane’s American passport confiscated by police last year.
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