Yigal Amir

Yigal Amir (Hebrew: ???? ????) (born 1970) assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on November 4th, 1995 at a rally in Tel Aviv, Israel, and was sentenced to life plus 14 years in prison. Amir was a law student at Bar-Ilan University and a right-wing activist who had strenuously opposed Rabin's signing of the Oslo Accords.

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Yigal Amir was born to a national-religious (Religious Zionist) Orthodox Jewish family in the Israeli town of Herzliya; his parents emigrated to Israel from Yemen. He attended Haredi elementary school and yeshiva for his formal education. He served in the Golani Brigade during service in the Israel Defense Force as part of a combined yeshiva-study and army-training program known as hesder. A law student at Bar-Ilan University, he was involved in organizing demonstrations against the Oslo Accords.

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Yitzhak Rabin: (or Yitschak Rabin) (???? ???? in Hebrew), (March 1, 1922 – November 4, 1995) was an Israeli politician and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel from 1974 until 1977 and again from 1992 until his assassination in 1995 by Yigal Amir. He was the first Israeli-born Prime Minister of...

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