clipped from: english.aljazeera.net   
Ilan Mizrahi is an Israeli photojournalist who has spent 16 years photographing and filming right wing Israeli settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron.
His film, Israel: Rise of the Right, looks at the followers of Rabbi Meir Kahane, an American-born rabbi and politician who proposed the mass expulsion of Arabs from Israel before he was assassinated in 1990.

Nine months ago, I was asked to make a documentary about the extreme right in Israel. That was before the war in Gaza and the Israeli elections, but it was already apparent to most that the right wing bloc led by Binyamin Netanyahu would form the next government.

As tensions between the two communities escalated, the city became the centre for an extreme right wing movement led by Rabbi Meir Kahane, an American-born rabbi who was elected to the Israeli parliament in 1984 and advocated the removal of all Arabs from Israel and the West Bank.



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