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Baruch Goldstein

1956 - 1994

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Baruch Kopel Goldstein (Hebrew: ברוך קאפל גולדשטיין; born Benjamin Carl Goldstein; December 9, 1956 – February 25, 1994) was an American-Israeli mass murderer, religious extremist, and physician who perpetrated the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre 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. Born in 1956 in Brooklyn, New York, to an Orthodox Jewish family, Goldstein received his education there, starting with Jewish scripture studies, and eventually studying medicine at Yeshiva University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Baruch Goldstein has received more than 1,414,445 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Baruch Goldstein is the 108th most popular extremist (up from 119th in 2019), the 2,264th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,651st in 2019) and the 31st most popular American Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Baruch Goldstein ranks 108 out of 283. Before him are Leonarda Cianciulli, Barry Seal, Johann Rattenhuber, Richard Ramirez, Monika Ertl, and Horst Mahler. After him are Therese Brandl, Eugen Weidmann, Dokka Umarov, Yigal Amir, Joachim Kroll, and Dennis Nilsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Baruch Goldstein ranks 75. Before him are Milan Babić, Bob Saget, Boris Akunin, Kōji Yakusho, Patricia Cornwell, and Mansour Bahrami. After him are La Toya Jackson, Krystian Zimerman, Miguel Bosé, Alejandro Giammattei, Ewa Kopacz, and Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. Among people deceased in 1994, Baruch Goldstein ranks 94. Before him are Jack Unterweger, Max Morlock, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, James Clavell, Andrés Escobar, and Howard Martin Temin. After him are Juan Carlos Onetti, Wilma Rudolph, Marcel Bich, Manos Hatzidakis, Roberto Burle Marx, and Donald Judd.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Baruch Goldstein ranks 2,264 out of 20,380. Before him are Johnny Winter (1944), Stanley Donen (1924), Chazz Palminteri (1952), Michael Walzer (1935), Betty Friedan (1921), and Joseph E. Johnston (1807). After him are Carol Gilligan (1936), Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923), Othniel Charles Marsh (1831), John Conyers (1929), Ray Harryhausen (1920), and Joseph Kittinger (1928).

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Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Baruch Goldstein ranks 31. Before him are Susan Atkins (1948), Henry Lee Lucas (1936), Whitey Bulger (1929), Robert Hansen (1939), Barry Seal (1939), and Richard Ramirez (1960). After him are Delphine LaLaurie (1787), Aldrich Ames (1941), David Berkowitz (1953), Stephen Paddock (1953), Rodney Alcala (1943), and Robert Stroud (1890).

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