with David Jessel
The Merchant of Menace Rabbi Kahane
Holy Fascist of Israel
For many Israelis, the most alarming result of an indecisive election was the 25,000 votes securing a seat in the Knesset for Rabbi Meir Kahane. Bible in hand, unshamedly racist,
Rabbi Kahane seeks to purge Israel of 'the damned'-every Arab in the Holy Land.
For a nation born out of the horror of the Nazi holocaust such talk - backed up by faith and by violence - seems inconceivable. David Jessel goes to Israel to discover how Jewish experience and Israeli democracy can tolerate this home-grown fanaticism. Film editor MICHAEL ALOOF Assistant producer RICHARD VAUGHAN
Series producer COLIN CAMERON