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Yigal Amir

Yigal Amir

1970

Nationality
Israel

Yigal Amir (born May 31, 1970) is an Israeli murderer who assassinated the incumbent prime minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, on November 4, 1995, at the conclusion of a rally supporting the Oslo Accords in Tel Aviv.

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. Ayalon Prison
    Dates unknown
  2. Rimonim Prison
    Dates unknown

Biography

Yigal Amir (born May 31, 1970) is an Israeli murderer who assassinated the incumbent prime minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, on November 4, 1995, at the conclusion of a rally supporting the Oslo Accords in Tel Aviv. At the time of the murder, he was a law student at Bar-Ilan University. Amir is serving a life sentence for murder plus six years for injuring Rabin's bodyguard. Numerous radical right-wing Israeli organisations have carried out campaigns for Amir's release. The Shin Bet security service has assessed that Amir remains a threat to national security. The Knesset passed a law preventing the president of Israel from pardoning the assassin of a prime minister.

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