TEL AVIV, Israel, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Police Thursday shut down the office and a rabbinical school of Kach, the extremist Jewish nationalist movement.
Israel outlawed Kach in March 1994 following attacks on Arabs. The United States later declared Kach a terrorist organization.
Jerusalem Police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said they closed the group's Jerusalem office and its yeshiva, or rabbinical school, of the Jewish Idea, also in Jerusalem, following information of illegal activity.
He gave no details other than to say police searched the premises and confiscated material.
Police closed Kach's office several years ago but the group resumed activities elsewhere.
A Kach leader, Noam Federman, told United Press International that when it was closed down, "we open somewhere else."
Federman accused hard-line Public Security Minister Uzi Landau, perhaps the most hawkish minister in the government, of striking at Kach "in an attempt to show the Arabs that he is not racist."
Federman declined to say how many people belong to Kach but said that 1,000 people attended the last memorial for the movement's founder, U.S.-Israeli Rabbi Meir Kahane.
