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Baruch Kopel Goldstein was an American-Israeli physician and religious extremist who, in 1994, murdered 29 Palestinians in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, an incident of Jewish terrorism. Goldstein was a supporter of Kach, a religious Zionist party that the United States, the European Union and other countries designate as a terrorist organization. Kach was banned less than a month after…
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science · American-Israeli mass murderer (1956–1994) · physician · politician · kahanist · also Baruch Goldstein, Baruch Kopel Goldstein, Benjamin Carl Goldstein, ברוך גולדשטיין, Goldstein
Born 9 December 1956 · Died 25 February 1994 · Q380435
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Published “The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans” in Nature — cited 9,227 times.
Published “The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package<sup>*</sup>” in The Astronomical Journal — cited 7,235 times.
Published “Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans” in Nature — cited 9,065 times.
Published “Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging” in European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging — cited 6,893 times.
Published “Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging” in Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography — cited 11,888 times.
Published “Increased Survival in Pancreatic Cancer with nab-Paclitaxel plus Gemcitabine” in New England Journal of Medicine — cited 5,777 times.
Published “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,665 times.
Jewish settlers sang songs in praise of Baruch Goldstein's massacre demonstratively in front of their Arab neighbours, during celebrations of Purim
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Published “Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases” in Nature — cited 7,002 times.
Published “SREBPs: activators of the complete program of cholesterol and fatty acid synthesis in the liver” in Journal of Clinical Investigation — cited 4,632 times.
Radical Jewish settlers continued to celebrate the anniversary of the massacre in the West Bank, sometimes even dressing up themselves or their children to look like Goldstein
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After the passing of Israeli legislation outlawing monuments to terrorists, the Israeli Army dismantled the shrine that had been built to Goldstein at the site of his interment
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Following passage of a law designed to prohibit monuments to terrorists, and an associated Supreme Court ruling, the Israeli Army bulldozed the shrine and prayer area set up near Goldstein's grave
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Members of the Labor Party called for the shrine-like landscaped prayer area near the grave to be removed, and Israeli security officials expressed concern that the grave would encourage extremists
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Died 1994-02-25.
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Goldstein dressed in an Israeli military uniform, entered a mosque in the Cave of the Patriarchs and opened fire on the 800 Palestinian Muslim worshippers praying there during the month of Ramadan, killing 29 and woundin
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That year's Purim day, Goldstein entered a room in the Cave of the Patriarchs that was serving as a mosque, wearing the official Israeli Ground Forces uniform "with the insignia of rank, creating the image of a reserve o
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Murdered 29 Palestinians in Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, an incident of Jewish terrorism
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Goldstein immigrated to Israel, and served as a physician in the Israeli military, during which he refused to treat Arabs, including those serving as soldiers
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Born 1956-12-09.
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As Benjamin Goldstein in Brooklyn, New York, to an Orthodox Jewish family
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In the Brooklyn borough of New York City, to an Orthodox Jewish family, Goldstein received his education there, starting with Jewish scripture studies, and eventually studying medicine at Yeshiva University
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