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On February 25th, 1994, Baruch Goldstein, a Jewish American immigrant, and member of the radical Kach party led by Rabbi Meir Kahane, opened fire at Muslim worshippers in Hebron with a semi-automatic weapon, killing twenty nine and wounding 125 before being beaten to death by survivors fighting for their lives. The massacre, which was defined as such by the deeply disturbed Israeli public and government led to two days of riots between Jews and Arabs in Judea and Samaria.
Read more: This Day In History: Baruch Goldstein Opens Fire In Hebron Shrine, Killing 29