Moshe Levinger

Moshe Levinger is an American. He was born in 1935.

He is an Israeli religious Zionist, extremely rightwing and members of the outlawed Kach and Kahane terrorist groups.

Levinger is the main founder of the Gush Emunim terrorist movement, and he is its head.

Levinger is involved in many murders and violent crimes against Palestinians in Hebron and throughout the West Bank.

He is married with an American terrorist, Miriam, another founder of the terror organization Gush Emunim. Together they have 11 children. They reside in the illegal Avraham Avino settlement in Hebron.

Levinger established Avraham Avino in 1986 together with 80 other American Jewish extremists

Levinger studied at the Mercaz haRav Bnei Akiva yeshiva in Jerusalem under the guidance of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook.
He was part of an elitist group of idealistic young men called "Gahelet" which contained a large proportion of future leaders of Gush Emunim who were largely influenced by the teachings of Rav Kook.

In April 1968, Levinger and six other Jewish families together with a group of Yeshiva youths moved (as tourists) into the Al-Naher_Al-Khaled Hotel at Ein-Sarah, in the main street in the city of Hebron. Levinger claimed that they want to celebrate the Passover at the Abraham cave. After 40 day of occupancy, Nachshon, Moshe Levinger and the other settlers were forced by the Al-Qwasmeh family to leave Al-Naher Al_Khaled hotel because they tried to take over the hotel and convert it into a synagogue. The settlers moved to the Israeli army compound in Hebron and settled there.

Maryam/Miriam Levinger, his wife, gave birth to three children during their stay at the Israeli military compound in Hebron.

The Al-Naher Al-Khaled hotel belongs to the family of the former Major of Hebron, Mr. Fahed Al-Qwasmeh. In 1980 Mr. Al_Qawasmeh was deported to Jordan by the Israeli occupation, he was later assassinated by a Mossad hit squad on 29/12/1984.

In April 1979, Maryam Levinger and Sarah Nachshon lead a "demonstration" to the center of Al-Shuhada Street in Hebron. They settled in the in Al-Dabboia building, which had been a police station used during the Turkish empire. The building had previously been ceded by the Jordanian kingdom, successor of the Turkish empire, to the UN. The entitlement of the settlers to residency here is obscure, as opposed to outright theft and murder, the more usual methods which the settlers use to acquire land. The continued residency of the settlers in this building can ultimately be interpreted as evidence that the UN supports the occupation and rewards terrorism.

In 1987, Levinger was voted by 22 leading Israelis in the hebrew weekly "Hadashot" as the most influential person of the generation on Israeli society along with Menachem Begin.

In 1987 Levinger was appointed as the ultimate leader of Gush Emunim.

In 1993 he unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament.

On 30/9/1988 Levinger murdered the Palestinian shopkeeper Kayed Hasan Abed-Al_Aziz Salah, of age 42, for no apparent reason. Salah was murdered at the entrance of his shop in Bab Al-Zaweieh Street. Levinger was convicted to some months at Jail after murdering Salah, but he was released.

Levinger has been convicted 7 times to jail, but he has always been released.

In March 1991 he went to jail for four months after being convicted for breaking into a Palestinian home and assaulting a woman and her two children, who had, Levinger claimed, been teasing one of his daughters.

1992 Levinger created a political party called "Tora Ve'eretz Yisrael" (Torah and Land of Israel).

On 20 November 1995, Maryam/Miriam was detained by police and forcibly brought to a court in Jerusalem. She was charged together with her husband for attacking a policeman.