Informative Essay On Avraham Hershkovitz

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Avraham Hershkovitz
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Executive Summary Avraham Hershkovitz is a Far Right Jewish extremist, former Israeli soldier, and member of the Jewish Defense League. There is little direct evidence pertaining to his radicalization, but he appears to have quickly involved himself with the Jewish Defense League. Authorities arrested Hershkovitz on September 27, 1970 at Kennedy International Airport. He and his wife attempted to smuggle four guns and hand grenades that they wished to use in a hijacking a flight and diverting it to Israel. In April 1970, authorities sentenced Hershkovitz and his wife to five years in prison for passport violations. Hershkovitz later pleaded guilty to the 1970 bombing of the Soviet trade mission headquarters …show more content…

Young Adulthood (17-25) Avraham Hershkovitz served in the Israeli Army until shortly before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, when he immigrated to the United States. Through Hershkovitz’s military service and his prior residence in Israel, he gained Israeli citizenship.
Adulthood (25-45) Throughout his adult life, Hershkovitz was an active Jewish extremist. Hershkovitz attempted multiple times to smuggle weapons through airport security and was arrested twice, once in the United States and once in Israel, on violating weapons control charges. In both arrests, the weapons being smuggled were to be used in revenge operations against Arab targets. While in prison in the United States, Hershkovitz admitted to participating in the bombing of a Soviet Trade Mission in New York. After serving two years of a five year prison sentence, authorities in the United States granted Hershkovitz parole and deported him to Israel, where he would be arrested again for smuggling weapons.
In 1970, federal authorities described Hershkovitz as an unemployed clerk who was involved with the Jewish Defense League (JDL). The JDL is a right wing militant group formed in the United States by Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1968. The mission of JDL is to protect Jews by any means they deem

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