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==Violent deaths==
A number of senior JDL personnel and associates have died violently. Meir Kahane, the JDL's founding chairman, was assassinated in 1990 as was his son, [[Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane]], in 2000. Long-time JDL chairman [[Irv Rubin]] died in 2002 in a Los Angeles federal detention center "after allegedly cutting his throat with a jail-issued razor and then jumping or falling over a railing and plummeting to his death." Rubin's deputy, [[Earl Krugel]], was murdered by a fellow prison inmate and white supremacist in 2005.<ref name="NYT-Krugel-death">{{cite news |date=November 6, 2005 |title=U.S. Jewish militant killed in prison |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/world/americas/06iht-jdl.html?_r=0 |access-date=27 October 2013 |newspaper=New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Williams |first=Carol J. |date=2009-07-24 |title=L.A. federal judge closes civil trial for activist's murder |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jul-24-me-judge-secrecy24-story.html |access-date=2024-02-05 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US |archive-date=2024-02-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205032123/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jul-24-me-judge-secrecy24-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="JJ-Krugel-death">{{cite news |last=Crogan |first=Jim |date=July 23, 2006 |title=Feds Indict Suspect in Prison Murder of JDL's Krugel |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/nation/article/feds_indict_suspect_in_prison_murder_of_jdls_krugel_20060724/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917174045/http://www.jewishjournal.com/nation/article/feds_indict_suspect_in_prison_murder_of_jdls_krugel_20060724/ |archive-date=2016-09-17 |accessdate=January 15, 2011 |work=Jewish Journal}}</ref><ref name="LF-Krugel-death">{{Cite web |date=March 14, 2008 |title=US Attorney – Federal Inmate Sentenced On Brutal Murder Of Fellow Inmate |url=https://www.lawfuel.com/us-attorney-federal-inmate-sentenced-on-brutal-murder-of-fellow-inmate/ |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113033658/http://www.lawfuel.com/us-attorney-federal-inmate-sentenced-on-brutal-murder-of-fellow-inmate |archivedate=January 13, 2016 |website=Law Fuel}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Rothman |first=Tibby |date=August 5, 2009 |title=Why was Jewish Radical Earl Krugel Slain in Prison? |url=https://www.laweekly.com/why-was-jewish-radical-earl-krugel-slain-in-prison/ |website=LA Weekly |access-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-date=February 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230213094129/https://www.laweekly.com/why-was-jewish-radical-earl-krugel-slain-in-prison/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=November 6, 2005 |title=Jewish extremist killed in jail |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4411408.stm |work=[[BBC News]] |access-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-date=May 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230527025815/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4411408.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> Rubin's son and JDL vice-chairman Ari Rubin committed suicide in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tugend |first=Tom |date=17 August 2012 |title=JDL vice chairman's suicide continues chain of violent deaths |url=http://www.jta.org/2012/08/17/news-opinion/united-states/jdl-vice-chairmans-suicide-continues-chain-of-violent-deaths |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170604123802/http://www.jta.org/2012/08/17/news-opinion/united-states/jdl-vice-chairmans-suicide-continues-chain-of-violent-deaths |archive-date=2017-06-04 |access-date=2017-05-21 |website=Jewish Telegraphic Agency}}</ref>