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Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Eisenkot says man assaulted after removing banner backing Rabin’s killer was party activist, demands police action
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Yashar party leader Gadi Eisenkot calls on police chief Daniel Levy to investigate the “politically motivated violence” against 75-year-old Ilan Manes, whom far-right youths were recorded assaulting last week after Manes removed a banner that supported Yigal Amir, the 1995 assassin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
Manes, who underwent surgery at Hadassah yesterday after a CT scan showed he had suffered a brain hemorrhage, is the head of Yashar’s local chapter in Mevasseret Zion, Eisenkot says in a letter to Levy. Manes’s party affiliation hadn’t been previously made public.
“This is an extraordinary and serious incident of politically motivated violence,” Eisenkot writes. “This kind of violence, 84 days before election day, could be a very serious sign of what awaits us in this period, and we must not put up with it.”
Eisenkot demands police “conduct a quick, rigorous and comprehensive investigation, and to immediately bring about the arrest and prosecution of the guilty party/parties.”
No one has been arrested over the assault, according to a volunteer lawyer group that helped Manes file a police complaint.
The Times of Israel Community.