Meir David HaKohen Kahane, an Israeli-American rabbi and ultranationalist politician, was assassinated on November 5, 1990, at the age of 58. Kahane was giving a speech at the New York Marriott East Side hotel in Manhattan when he was shot by El Sayyid Nosair, an Egyptian-born American citizen. Nosair approached Kahane disguised as an Orthodox Jew and shot him at close range with a .357-caliber pistol. Kahane was hit in the neck and succumbed to his injuries shortly thereafter. The assassination
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