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Shmuel (Seth) Sackett (; born 1961 in
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) is a
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leader. He co-founded both the
Zo Artzeinu Zo or ZO may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Kamen Rider ZO'', a 1993 Japanese tokusatsu movie * ''Zo'' (album), an album by jazz pianist Matthew Shipp Ethnography * Zo people, a group of indigenous tribe in Burma and northeast India ** Zo ...
and
Manhigut Yehudit Manhigut Yehudit (, "Jewish Leadership") was a political movement and caucus within the Likud Party started by Moshe Feiglin and Shmuel Sackett to lead the State of Israel with, in their words, "authentic Jewish values". This has been widely inte ...
("Jewish Leadership") political movements in
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. During the 1990s, Zo Artzeinu opposed the
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through
civil disobedience Civil disobedience is the active and professed refusal of a citizenship, citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders, or commands of a government (or any other authority). By some definitions, civil disobedience has to be nonviolent to be cal ...
. In 1998, Sackett co-founded
Manhigut Yehudit Manhigut Yehudit (, "Jewish Leadership") was a political movement and caucus within the Likud Party started by Moshe Feiglin and Shmuel Sackett to lead the State of Israel with, in their words, "authentic Jewish values". This has been widely inte ...
with long-time partner
Moshe Feiglin Moshe Zalman Feiglin (; born 31 July 1962) is a right libertarian-leaning Israeli politician and activist, and the leader of libertarian Zionist party Zehut. As a member of Likud, he headed the Manhigut Yehudit (''Jewish Leadership'') faction w ...
.


Life and career

Sackett was born in the
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, and studied at
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in
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. He was educated in both
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ic scholarship and secular academic subjects. He had been involved in Jewish youth work, and in Jewish educational outreach to secular Jews, some of whom became
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s ("returnees to
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") under his tutelage. He worked in
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's
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before making
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to Israel and settling in the
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in 1990. Sackett had been a member of the
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in the 1970s, and a loyal follower of
Kach Kach () was a radical Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Jewish, religious Zionist List of political parties in Israel, political party in Israel, existing from 1971 to 1994. Founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1971 based on his Jewish-Orthodox-nationalist ...
leader
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Meir Kahane Meir David HaKohen Kahane ( ; ; born Martin David Kahane; August 1, 1932 – November 5, 1990) was an American-born Israel, Israeli Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox ordained rabbi, writer and ultra-nationalist politician. Founder of the Israeli pol ...
in the United States. Sackett eventually followed Kahane to Israel, where he joined Kach and, later,
Kahane Chai Kach () was a radical Orthodox Jewish, religious Zionist political party in Israel, existing from 1971 to 1994. Founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1971 based on his Jewish-Orthodox-nationalist ideology (subsequently dubbed Kahanism), the party wo ...
. He became the director of Kahane Chai.Richard J. Chasdi (2002) Tapestry of Terror: A Portrait of Middle East Terrorism, 1994-1999 Lexington Books, p 316 After Feiglin's election to the Knesset in 2013, Sackett authored an article on the Manhigut Yehudit website rejecting calls from supporters that he and Feiglin renounce Kahane. He co-founded Zo Artzeinu with Moshe Feiglin in 1993. While Sackett was a close friend of Kahane's son, Rabbi
Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane (; 3 October 1966 – 31 December 2000) was an American-Israeli Orthodox rabbi and the son of Rabbi Meir Kahane. He was assassinated by Palestinian militants in 2000. His wife, Talia, was also killed in the attack, leaving ...
, he disagreed with the younger Kahane's tactics. Sackett and Feiglin shared some of Meir Kahane's goals, such as the relocation of
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living in Israel to be relocated to places outside of Israel. Sackett worked as Manhigut's International Director. When Feiglin left Likud and created
Zehut Zehut () is a Right-libertarianism, right-libertarian and Nationalism, nationalist political party in Israel founded in 2015 by Moshe Feiglin. Its platform is centered on promoting Liberty, individual liberty, including economic freedom, and Pr ...
, Sackett joined him and was chosen 12th on the party list for the April 2019 elections in which the party did not pass the electoral threshold. In the following September 2019 elections, he was placed on the 15th and final place in Zehut's candidate list. The party forwent the candidacy before the elections took place.


Personal life

He has residences in both
Woodmere, New York Woodmere is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population was 18,669 at the 2020 census. Woodmere is one of the Long Island communities known as the Five Towns, wh ...
, and
Karnei Shomron Karnei Shomron (, lit. "Rays (of light) of Samaria") is an Israeli settlement organized as a local council established in 1977 in the West Bank, east of Kfar Saba. Karnei Shomron is located northeast of Tel Aviv and north of Jerusalem. In it ...
, a Jewish
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in the
West Bank The West Bank is located on the western bank of the Jordan River and is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip) that make up the State of Palestine. A landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...
. He is married, with six children.


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Articles by Shmuel Sackett
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