Rehavam Ze'evi

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Rehavam Ze'evi
רחבעם זאבי
Ministerial roles
1991–1992	Minister without Portfolio
2001	Minister of Tourism
Faction represented in the Knesset
1988–1999	Moledet
1999–2001	National Union
Personal details
Born	(1926-06-20)20 June 1926 Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
Died	17 October 2001(2001-10-17) (aged 75) Jerusalem
Manner of death	Assassination by gunshot
Resting place	Mount Herzl, Jerusalem

Rehavam Ze'evi (Hebrew: רחבעם זאבי listen^ⓘ; 20 June 1926 – 17 October 2001) was an Israeli general and politician who founded the far-right nationalist Moledet party. He mainly advocated for complete cleansing of the Palestinian population through population transfer.^[1]

He was assassinated by Hamdi Quran of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine's (PFLP) Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades in retaliation for Israel's assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa, the Secretary General of the PFLP.