Brit HaKanaim was a radical religious Jewish underground organisation which operated in Israel between 1950 and 1953, against the widespread trend of secularisation in the country. The goal of the movement was to impose Jewish religious law in the State of Israel and establish a Halakhic state. The organisation's members trained using stolen weaponry, and would torch the vehicles of individuals who drove during Shabbat and the shops of butchers that sold non-kosher meat.

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  • Brit HaKanaim was a radical religious Jewish underground organisation which operated in Israel between 1950 and 1953, against the widespread trend of secularisation in the country. The goal of the movement was to impose Jewish religious law in the State of Israel and establish a Halakhic state. The organisation's members trained using stolen weaponry, and would torch the vehicles of individuals who drove during Shabbat and the shops of butchers that sold non-kosher meat. The Shin Bet uncovered a plot to disconnect the flow of electricity to the Knesset and throw a smoke bomb into the Knesset Plenum, during the course of a debate about the drafting of women into the Israeli Defense Forces. On 26 May 1953, two members of the organisation were arrested on their way to place an explosive device in the Ministry of Education building in protest against the state education system. The members arrested possessed a list of the group's members, which were all arrested shortly thereafter. Four of those arrested were sentenced to short periods of imprisonment. During the period of their detention there surfaced allegations of police malconduct in the treatment of the detainees, and a parliamentary inquiry was established to investigate the conduct of the police forces. They completed their terms of imprisonment prior to the completion of the trial in the Jalmi prison, near Sha'ar HaAmakim. Since, the group has also sometimes been referred to as the Jalmi Underground. Among the members of the group were Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, who later served as the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, and Shlomo Lorincz who later served as chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee as a member of Agudat Yisrael. Another radical Jewish underground organisation which operated at this time was Malchut Yisrael, which was also exposed in 1953 following the arrest of the two members from Brit HaKanaim.
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  • Brit HaKanaim was a radical religious Jewish underground organisation which operated in Israel between 1950 and 1953, against the widespread trend of secularisation in the country. The goal of the movement was to impose Jewish religious law in the State of Israel and establish a Halakhic state. The organisation's members trained using stolen weaponry, and would torch the vehicles of individuals who drove during Shabbat and the shops of butchers that sold non-kosher meat.
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  • Brit HaKanaim
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