On this day, Nov. 5, in 1990, controversial Rabbi Meir Kahane was assassinated in New York.
Kahane, founder of the Kach movement that advocated paying Arabs $40,000 to leave Israel and expel those who refused, was gunned down after giving a speech at a Manhattan hotel.
Police found bomb-making manuals along with 1,440 rounds of ammunition in the New Jersey apartment of El Sayyid Nosair, of Egypt. A jury acquitted Nosair of the murder but convicted him of gun charges.
While in prison, he had a role in the planning of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and was later sentenced to life.
Nosair remains in the Supermax prison in Colorado.
-Scott McCabe
