His wife, Talia, was also killed in the attack, leaving behind six young children.
He was a young Israeli Orthodox Jewish scholar and rabbi who was most famous for his leadership of Kahane Chai, a far-right political party that broke from his father's Kach party after Meir Kahane's assassination in 1990.
Kahane and his wife Talia were shot and killed near the Israeli settlement of Ofra on 31 December 2000.
[2] The ambush took place on road 60 about 15 km (9.3 mi) north of Jerusalem, just before the town of Ofra.
[3] The Prime Minister's Office subsequently announced the arrest of three members of Force 17 – Talal Ghassan, Marzouk Abu Naim, and Na'man Nofel – who were believed to have carried out the attack under the instruction of PLO leader Col. Mahmoud Damra.