Lehava

Knesset Constitution Committee debates foreign sanctions on Israeli civilians

Foreign Minister Katz said on Wednesday during a meeting with Judea and Samaria heads that there was "no such thing as settler violence."

|ByELIAV BREUER, TOVAH LAZAROFF
Members of the radical right-wing organization Lehava holding placards, 2016.
Lehava chairman Benzi Gopstein and right-wing activists demonstrate against the annual gay pride parade in Jerusalem, 2022

US sanctions Lehava, extremist Israeli organizations blocking Gaza aid

The individuals on the list are members of Tzav 9, an organization that regularly blocks humanitarian aid trucks from entering Gaza.

|ByTAMAR URIEL-BEERI
LEHAVA CHAIRMAN Benzi Gopstein and activists protest the annual Jerusalem Pride Parade under heavy security, in 2019.

US sanctions Lehava leader, fundraisers for violent settlers

The sanctions come the same day that similar measures were taken by the European Union Council, which sanctioned four individuals and two entities including Lehava.

|ByLEON KRAIEM
Ben-Zion Gopstein (left), leader of the group Lehava, gathers with some of his young followers in Jerusalem in 2014

EU sanctions hilltop youth, Lehava for human rights violations in the West Bank

The abuses include "torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment," the EU Council said in a statement.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Leader of extreme right-wing organization arrested for threatening Arabs

The outspoken leader of the anti-assimilation organization is no stranger to controversy.

OCTOBER 22, 2017ByUDI SHAHAM
Rabbi Bentzi Gopstein

#44 Dorit Rabinyan - The novelist who hit a nerve

Israel’s Education Ministry, headed by Naftali Bennett, targeted her novel in response to high school teachers who began including it on their lists of required reading.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017ByTERRANCE MINTNER
Author Dorit Rabinyan holding her controversial book 'Borderlife.'

NGO to Court: Force A-G to indict Lehava head, outlaw group

They have also requested to criminalize the organization.

JULY 5, 2017ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Sparring: Members of the Lehava movement protest. A sign reads, ‘Father, where is my mother?’

Jewish extremists accused of targeting, beating Palestinians in Jerusalem

Police deny report of not intervening in Lehava assault that led to one victim hospitalized.

JUNE 29, 2017ByDANIEL K. EISENBUD
Ben-Zion Gopstein (left), leader of the group Lehava, gathers with some of his young followers in Jerusalem in 2014

Female member of extremist group Lehava indicted on weapons charges

Lehava propagates the racist ideology of the late Jewish Defense League founder Meir Kahane, who was assassinated in New York City in 1990.

AUGUST 16, 2016ByDANIEL K. EISENBUD
Sparring: Members of the Lehava movement protest. A sign reads, ‘Father, where is my mother?’

Far-right Israeli activists protest Jerusalem Christmas event

Lehava claims Christmas tree decorating event at YMCA targeted Jewish children.

DECEMBER 1, 2015ByJTA
Members of the Greek Orthodox clergy wait for the arrival of the Greek Patriarch of Jerusalem Metropolitan Theophilos before the Eastern Orthodox Christmas procession outside the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem

Beitar Illit man gets 3 years in jail for arson of Hebrew-Arabic school in Jerusalem

According to the Shin Bet, Yitzhak Gabai was a member of the Jewish extremist group Lehava.

DECEMBER 1, 2015ByBEN HARTMAN
State indicts 3 in arson of bilingual Hebrew-Arabic school in Jerusalem

Ahead of Jerusalem gay pride parade: Lehava accuses homosexuals of harming Jewish nation

Meir David Koperschmidt of the anti-assimilation Lehava group equates homosexuality with bank robbery.

JULY 30, 2015ByTAMARA ZIEVE
2014 Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade

Ya'alon asks legal experts if he can ban Lehava Jewish extremist organization

Defense minister: Those who spread hate against the Arab minority are a danger to Israeli society.

JANUARY 4, 2015ByYAAKOV LAPPIN
State indicts 3 in arson of bilingual Hebrew-Arabic school in Jerusalem

Lehava leader says arrested members denied freedom of speech

"My activists work according to the law, if they did otherwise, that has no connection to me," says Gopstein.

DECEMBER 22, 2014ByDANIEL K. EISENBUD
A wall at a bilingual Hebrew-Arabic school in Jerusalem reads "Enough with assimilation."