November 1, 1972 - Yaakov Teitel
A self-described religious nationalist who operated largely undetected for years, Teitel carried out a scattered but sustained campaign of violence targeting an unusually broad range of perceived ideological and religious enemies. His crimes ranged from killings to bombings and targeted harassment, directed against Palestinians, gay Israelis, leftists, and others he viewed as threats to his worldview. The breadth of his targeting and the duration over which he acted made his eventual arrest in 2009 a significant moment in Israeli discussions about domestic extremism.
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Yaakov Teitel (Hebrew: יעקב טייטל; born November 1972) is an American-born Israeli religious nationalist, convicted for killing two people in 2009. Teitel, who had immigrated to Israel in 2000, settling in a West Bank settlement, confessed to planning and committing various acts of terrorism and hate crimes against Palestinians, homosexuals, left-wingers, missionary Christians, and police officers across Israel. Teitel was sentenced to life imprisonment, which he is currently serving.
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