Michael Guzovsky, commonly called Mike Guzofsky (Hebrew: מייק גוזובסקי)^[1] and Yekutiel Ben-Ya'acov (Hebrew: יקותיאל בן-יעקב)^[2] is an American-Israeli far-right activist and former politician.

He settled at Kfar Tapuach, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank.^[3]

Guzovsky used to work for the Jewish Defense League, later on climbing the ranks of Meir Kahane's Kach movement.^[4]

He and several other American immigrants stepped up TNT's violence in 1983 arson, beatings, and on March 4, 1984, shooting a bus of Arab workers near Ramallah, wounding six.

Guzovsky was charged with four others, one of whom was to testify for the prosecution but fled.

Ben-Ya'akov was acquitted while the others were convicted, later on continued in leadership roles at the Kahane Chai offshoot from Kach and was jailed several times in later violence..^[5]

The Anti-Defamation League reported that by after Meir Kahane died, he passed on his mantle to friends who share similar credentials to him and his Kach party, such as Benjamin Ze'ev Kahane/Ben-Ya'akov, who led Kahane Chai offshoot in the United States where they come from, demonstrated against then Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin and for fellow Kach activist and Jewish settler in the West Bank, Dr. Baruch Goldstein,killed 29 Palestinians and wounded more than 125 others at the Cave of Machpelah.^[6]

When Rabin was assassinated in 1995, Guzovsky stated that "Rabin was bad for Jews" and said of Yigal Amir, that "An intelligent man, one like this law student, had to act.""^[7]

He has organized peaceful resistance against the dismantlement of settlements.

According to the British Government, Guzovsky is a Jewish militant and is on the list of individuals banned from entering the United Kingdom.

1. ↑ Mitchell, Alison (26 February 1994). "WEST BANK MASSACRE: AT LEAST 40 SLAIN IN WEST BANK AS ISRAELI FIRES INTO MOSQUE; CLINTON MOVES TO RESCUE TALKS; A Killer's Path of Militancy: From Brooklyn to West Bank". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 13 December 2013. Retrieved 2025-10-02.
2. ↑ Izenberg, Dan (8 August 2005). "Traffic-blocking girls released after spending 39 days in custody". Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on May 10, 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
3. ↑ Izenberg, Dan (8 August 2005). "Traffic-blocking girls released after spending 39 days in custody". Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on May 10, 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
4. ↑ Marshall, Edgar S. (2002). Israel: Current Issues and Historical Background. Nova. p. 229. ISBN 9781590333259. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
5. ↑ Hirschhorn, Sara Yael (May 22, 2017). City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement. Harvard University Press. PT169. ISBN 9780674975057. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
6. ↑ "Extremism in the Name of Religion: The Violent Record of the Kahane Movement and its Offshoots" (PDF). Anti-Defamation League. 1995. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-05-29. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
7. ↑ McAlary, Mike (6 November 1995). "THE HATE BEHIND THE GUN RABIN'S FOES HAIL 'HERO' KILLER". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on 10 May 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-06.