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Baruch Goldstein

1956 - 1994

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Baruch Kopel Goldstein (Hebrew: ברוך קופל 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 the Kach, a religious Zionist party that the United States, the European Union and other countries designate as a terrorist organization.On February 25, 1994, Goldstein, a resident of the illegal Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba near Hebron, entered a room in the Cave of the Patriarchs that was serving as a mosque. Dressed in Israeli military uniform, he opened fire on the 800 Palestinian Muslim worshippers praying during the month of Ramadan, killing 29 and wounding 125 worshippers, until he was beaten to death by survivors.Following the massacre, Jewish Israeli settlers were barred from entering major Arab communities in Hebron. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Baruch Goldstein has received more than 1,175,344 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Baruch Goldstein is the 119th most popular extremist (up from 120th in 2019), the 2,658th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,048th in 2019) and the 39th most popular American Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Baruch Goldstein ranks 119 out of 209Before him are Peter Sutcliffe, Rodney Alcala, Robert Hansen, Mary Ann Cotton, Joseph Bonanno, and Dokka Umarov. After him are Belle Gunness, Mohamed Atta, Aslan Usoyan, Omar Abdel-Rahman, Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley, and Joseph Valachi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1956, Baruch Goldstein ranks 79Before him are Frances Arnold, Adnan Oktar, Maggie Reilly, Henri Toivonen, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Bo Derek. After him are Randy Rhoads, King Diamond, Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, Catherine Ashton, Boris Trajkovski, and Taur Matan Ruak. Among people deceased in 1994, Baruch Goldstein ranks 101Before him are Juan Carlos Onetti, Paisios of Mount Athos, Moana Pozzi, Andrés Escobar, Álvaro del Portillo, and Luis Ocaña. After him are Branko Mikulić, Wilma Rudolph, Enrique Líster, Max Morlock, Alexander Shelepin, and Joe Pass.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Baruch Goldstein ranks 2,658 out of 18,182Before him are Bo Derek (1956), Zendaya (1996), Jerome Powell (1953), Clifford Brown (1930), Lew Wallace (1827), and Daniel Davis (1945). After him are David Farragut (1801), Keith Carradine (1949), John Connally (1917), Edwin Sutherland (1883), John C. Calhoun (1782), and Annie Proulx (1935).

Among EXTREMISTS In United States

Among extremists born in United States, Baruch Goldstein ranks 39Before him are Delphine LaLaurie (1787), Andrew Cunanan (1969), Baby Face Nelson (1908), Aldrich Ames (1941), Rodney Alcala (1943), and Robert Hansen (1939). After him are Joseph Valachi (1904), Sam Giancana (1908), Leon Czolgosz (1873), Jerry Brudos (1939), Patricia Krenwinkel (1947), and Richard Chase (1950).