- 29 Mar 2004 11:25
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Police raided apartments in Jerusalem and the nearby Kfar Tapuah on Monday morning, from where two Web sites affiliated with the outlawed extreme rightwing Kahane Chai (Kahane Lives) movement were operated.
Six far-right activists were held for questioning on suspicion of updating two Web sites that contain information in Hebrew, English, and Russian representing the ideology of the extremist movement, which was outlawed after the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.
The "Kahane Lives" movement is named for far-right Rabbi Meir Kahane, who was assassinated in New York in November 1990 by an Egyptian extremist.
One of the sites contains a frequently asked questions page, which explains the importance of revenge in Judaism. The site also contains discussion groups and enables visitors to hold chats. The sites are still active because they operate on servers located outside of Israel.
During the raid police confiscated computers, literature on operating Web sites and other equipment.
Police have been holding an undercover investigation into the site operators for the past three months. The six people who were arrested are expected to be indicted.
Kahane activists said Monday in response to the arrests that despite the confiscation of their equipment, "police will not shut our mouth."