Following Kahane's death, Kach split into two factions:
Kahane Chai (Kahane Lives), headed by Kahane's son, Binyamin, and Kach, led by Rabbi Avraham Toledano, who later was replaced by Baruch Marzel.
After Goldstein's bloody rampage the Israeli government outlawed Kach as a terrorist organization along with offshoots like
Kahane Chai, as did the U.S.
It also noted that New York-born David Sackett, Feiglin's close associate and co-founder of the Jewish Leadership faction that Feiglin leads within Likud, is also a follower of Kahane and former leader of
Kahane Chai, an offshoot of Kach that is also considered a terrorist organization by the US.
Some of the sprayed phrases showed the names of illegal random settlement outposts to be evicted, while others indicated that the arsonists belong to the extremist banned Jewish movement of "
Kahane Chai" ,T.V added.
Only one Israeli group, the marginal
Kahane Chai, is on the list.
Funds from only eight "terrorist" groups are now frozen--four Arab groups, the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka, the Philippine Communist Party's militia, the Israeli
Kahane Chai, and the Mojahedin-e Khalq.
Even foreign terrorist organizations such as the Israeli
Kahane Chai and the Real IRA, which would normally have little incentive to attack the U.S., might retaliate against American targets.
The list also includes Greek terror groups, Sikh nationalists, Kurdish militants, Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers, Jewish hardline group
Kahane Chai and Peru's notorious Shining Path guerillas.
Kahane Chai; Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK); Lashkar e Tayyaba; Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam; Mujahedin-e Khalq Organisation; National Liberation Army; Palestinian Isalmic Jihad; Palestinian Liberation Front; Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; PFLP General Command,
As a portent of worse to come, on the last day of 2000, Rabbi Binyamin Kahane, leader of the banned racist
Kahane Chai movement, and son of the late ideologue, Meir Kahane, was gunned down by Palestinians near the settlement of Ofra.