Furthermore, Jewish terrorist groups comprised of mostly Orthodox Jews have been active for decades and their terror acts were mostly committed in Israel and adjacent disputed territories, also known as Palestine. They combine their religious motivations with political and territorial goals. They tend to be religious Jews whose rhetoric, motivation and purpose are deeply religious. These Halakha-centred Jews engage in horrifying acts not only on the settlements and disputed land but also at sacred sites where their acts take a more severe and flagrant religious dimension (Aran and Hassner, 2013, p. 361- 363). A founding father is Avraham Stern who elaborated an ideology of nationalism and messianic Jewish terrorism that paved the way for the
