Meir Ettinger
Meir Ettinger (born 4 October 1991) is an Israeli Kahanist activist and extremist who is known for leading the Hilltop Youth, a group that pursues the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, conducts punitive price tag attacks on Palestinian villages, and targets Muslim and Christian sites. Ettinger has called for the demolition of the secular state of Israel, and its replacement by a religious society based on Biblical principles. Life Meir Ettinger is one of 12 children of Mordechai and Tova () Ettinger. His father serves as a rabbi at the Har Hamor and Ateret Cohanim yeshivot. His mother Tova is the daughter of Rabbi Meir Kahane, regarded as the father of far-right Jewish militancy and the founder of Kach, a radical Orthodox political party and movement later banned by the Israeli government under its anti-terrorism laws. Meir was raised in the Jerusalem suburb of Kiryat Moshe. While frequenting high school, he began to wander around the hills of the West Bank, a move that disconcerted his parents. His wife Moriah was raised in the settlement of Shiloh. Ideology Meir Ettinger is said to have become a disciple of Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh, after meeting settlers from the Israeli