Baruch Goldstein


Baruch Kopel Goldstein was an Americanborn Israeli physician and religious extremist. He is known for being the mass murderer who perpetrated the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in the city of Hebron, killingPalestinian Muslim worshippers and wounding another 125. He was beaten to death by survivors of the massacre.

Goldstein was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Orthodox Jewish family. He attended the Yeshiva of Flatbush religious day school. He studied medicine at Yeshiva University, receiving a medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He belonged to the Jewish Defense League , a militant Jewish organization founded by his boyhood acquaintance Meir Kahane.

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