WORLD : Israel Arrests Kahane Followers
Police today ordered two followers of slain extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane jailed for six days while authorities investigate a campaign of arson and threats aimed at forcing Jewish shops to fire Arab workers.
Jerusalem Police Chief Aryeh Bibi said another member of Kahane’s anti-Arab Kach party was arrested today, bringing to five the number detained since Monday on suspicion of threatening shopkeepers, incitement and causing damage.
The suspects ordered held were Kach spokesman Noam Federman and party activist Tiran Pollack.
In a campaign that began shortly after Kahane was shot to death in New York on Nov. 5, bands of Jewish men have visited shopkeepers and sprayed graffiti on stores threatening their owners or Palestinian workers.
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