Article: Ben-Yair wants Baruch Goldstein book checked for possibleillegality

HERB KEINON
Jerusalem Post
03-15-1995
FORMER Kach activists said that in less than 24-hours yesterday they sold 6,000 books memorializing Baruch Goldstein, who killed 29 Moslems in the Machpela Cave last Purim. The sales figures could not be independently confirmed.

Attorney General Michael Ben-Yair instructed the police to investigate the book and see if its publication violates the law. Police Minister Moshe Shahal told Israel Radio he was "shocked to the depths of my soul" by the book.

The hard-cover, light-blue book has a picture of Goldstein on the cover receiving a certificate of merit from the IDF, and a picture of his grave in Kiryat Arba on the back.

The book is called Baruch ...

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