Far-rightist Itamar Ben-Gvir, a likely senior partner in Israel's next government, drew U.S. condemnation on Thursday for attending a memorial service for Meir Kahane, despite his having been booed at the event for disavowing the late militant leader's call for mass expulsion of Arabs.
A former member of Kahane's outlawed Kach movement, Ben-Gvir tweeted ahead of the Jerusalem event that his participation was in recognition of the slain U.S.-born Israeli rabbi's "love of Israel" and "fight for Soviet Jewry and against anti-Semitism."
