‘Yigal Amir will never be pardoned as long as I’m president’

Marking the Hebrew date of the anniversary of the assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, President Reuven Rivlin speaks at the President’s Residence.

“Twenty years after the assassination I can say… for as long as I am president, Yigal Amir will never be pardoned,” Rivlin says.

“We remember the shock when we realized the murder was real.”

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