Man, 75, attacked for removing banner supporting Rabin’s killer, suffers brain hemorrhage; no arrests

A 75-year-old former IDF officer has been hospitalized with a brain hemorrhage after he was assaulted last week for taking down a banner that called for the release of Yigal Amir, the far-right assassin who killed Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, according to the hospitalized man’s family and lawyers.

Footage from the assault on Ilan Manes on Tuesday, July 28, shows several youths — reportedly right-wing extremists — dragging and kicking Manes after he removed the sign at the Hemed Junction on Route 1, near where he lives in Mevasseret Zion, west of Jerusalem.

Manes has filed a complaint with the police, but no one has been arrested over the assault, says the Protest Detainee Legal Support Front, a group of lawyers who offer pro bono services to anti-government protesters.

According to the group, Manes found his left hand to be unresponsive while he was working at home on Thursday, and the same thing happened again, “even more seriously,” on Saturday, at which point his family took him to the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital.

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He is expected to undergo brain surgery at the hospital tonight, his daughter Talia tells Army Radio. She says he is responsive but “lost consciousness several times yesterday.”

Manes, a former lieutenant colonel in the IDF, was himself at the peace rally at Tel Aviv’s Kings of Israel Square — now called Rabin Square — that the premier addressed shortly before being shot dead, Talia Manes says.

“He couldn’t cope with the sign,” she says, referring to the banner over Route 1. “He understood he was getting into some kind of confrontation, but he didn’t imagine it would end like this.”