Baruch Marzel

Baruch Meir Marzel (Hebrew: ברוך מאיר מרזל‎‎, born 23 April 1959) is an Israeli politician and activist. Marzel, an Orthodox Jew from Boston, who now lives in the Jewish community of Hebron in Tel Rumeida with his wife and nine children. He was the leader of the far right-oriented Jewish National Front party. He is now a member of Otzma Yehudit. He claims he was the "right hand man" of assassinated Rabbi Meir Kahane, acting as spokesman for the American rabbi's Kach organization for ten years until it was outlawed in Israel and the US as a terrorist organization. The mainstream Israeli press regularly describes him as an "extreme right-wing activist".

Marzel was born in 1959 in Boston, Massachusetts and emigrated to Israel with his family when he was six weeks old, settling in Jerusalem’s Bayit Vegan neighbourhood. Although his father Shlomo was a respected educator who did not deal much with politics, Baruch joined Kahane’s Jewish Defense League at age 13. He gave up his US citizenship when he ran for the Knesset. After finishing his studies in the hesder yeshiva in the short-lived Israeli settlement of Yamit in the Sinai Peninsula, at age 20, he joined the IDF. In the 1982 Lebanon War, he fought in a tank regiment within the Armored Corps and participated in the capture of the Beirut-Damascus road. He was later wounded in action. Upon finishing his army service, the army sent him to the United States, where he was involved in public relations and outreach for Israel.

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