Haim Drukman, leader of Israeli settler movement, dies aged 90

Haim Drukman, a prominent rabbi who was one of the founders of Israel’s settlement movement, and a former member of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, has died at the age of 90 (Tsafrir Abayov/AP)

Haim Drukman, a prominent rabbi who was one of the founders of Israel’s settlement movement, has died at the age of 90.

Rabbi Drukman was a leading figure in the religious Zionist movement in Israel, and a major proponent of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula after Israel captured those territories in the 1967 Middle East war.