Assassination of Meir Kahane
In 1990, Nosair was accused of committing the assassination of Meir Kahane, the founder of the NYC based Jewish Defense League, a member of the Knesset, and founder of the Kach party, in Manhattan. The Kahane assassination occurred on November 5, 1990, shortly after 9 p.m., following a speech to an audience of mostly Orthodox Jews from Brooklyn. A crowd of well-wishers gathered around Kahane following the speech in the second-floor lecture hall in midtown Manhattan's Marriott East Side Hotel. Following a skirmish, El Sayyid Nosair, who was among the crowd, was shot by Carlos Acosta, a police officer for the United States Postal Inspection Service. The two continued to exchange gunfire before Nosair was apprehended. Nosair was taken to Bellevue Hospital for treatment of his wounds.
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