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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 372

Yigal Amir

Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Benny Gantz. (Yonatan Sindel, David Cohen/Flash90)
September 19, 2023, 4:02 pm
‘Leadership failure’: Gantz rebukes Netanyahu for planning to skip Rabin memorial
Opposition MK says PM must ‘do the right thing’ and honor assassinated leader’s memory at Mount Herzl even if protests are likely; Labor head: ‘Ceremony more dignified without him’
By Michael Bachner
File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a memorial service marking 23 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, on October 21, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)
September 19, 2023, 12:24 am
In first for sitting PM, Netanyahu expected to skip Rabin memorial at Mount Herzl
Unnamed sources close to premier call ceremony increasingly ‘political’; event has become battlefield between Netanyahu and Rabin family
By Michael Bachner
A roll of stickers reading 'Yigal Amir was right' seen at at right-wing pro government demonstration in Jerusalem on September 7, 2023. (Courtesy/Bar Shem-Ur)
September 9, 2023, 9:00 am
Organizers claim stickers praising extremists at rally handed out by ‘provocateurs’
Dozens of participants at pro-government demonstration were seen wearing stickers proclaiming that Yigal Amir, Baruch Goldstein, Amiram Ben Uliel and Meir Kahane ‘were right’
By ToI Staff
Host Yinon Magal on Channel 14's 'The Patriots' show on August 30, 2023. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 31, 2023, 1:17 pm
Right-wing pundit on Rabin murder: ‘When people are silenced, there is violence’
Channel 14’s Yinon Magal under fire for appearing to justify Yigal Amir’s motives in assassinating PM in 1995; last month, panelist on same show called for Amir’s release
By Michael Bachner
Lawyer Ari Shamai says Yigal Amir, assassin of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, should be released from prison, on a Channel 14 panel on July 30, 2023. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 1, 2023, 8:55 pm
2 more firms cut ads on Channel 14 after panelist called to release Rabin’s assassin
Delek Motors and Caesarstone, following Strauss, say right-wing network ‘is deepening the tear and broadening the divide’ in Israeli society
By ToI Staff
View of the Strauss Elite candy factory in Nof Hagalil, northern Israel, April 28, 2022. (David Cohen/FLASH90)
July 31, 2023, 11:53 pm
Israeli food giant halts ads on Channel 14 after call to release Rabin assassin
Strauss cites ‘repeated hurtful comments’ made on right-wing channel, which dismissed Yigal Amir’s attorney Ari Shamai following his remarks
By ToI Staff
Lawyer Ari Shamai says Yigal Amir, assassin of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, should be released from prison, on a Channel 14 panel on July 30, 2023. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 31, 2023, 2:57 am
Panelist on right-wing TV calls to free Rabin assassin, to audience applause; is booted
Lawyer Ari Shamai says Yigal Amir, who is serving life term without possibility of parole, should be released; Channel 14 says he will no longer appear on network
By Michael Horovitz and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin speaks to a crowd of more than 100,000 Israelis at a peace rally in Tel Aviv on November 4, 1995. Rabin, 73, was assassinated minutes later. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)
July 3, 2023, 1:27 pm
Ex-Shin Bet heads accuse Netanyahu of lying about lead-up to Rabin assassination
Retired chiefs, hundreds of former agents in security service say premier’s autobiography promotes false conspiracy theories about the 1995 murder of his predecessor
By ToI Staff
Prison guards escort Yosef Haim Ben-David, convicted of murdering Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir in 2014, as he arrives at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem for his appeal, on February 8, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 24, 2023, 4:00 pm
Probe finds group supporting Jewish extremists in Israel now also fundraising in US
Money raised by Shlom Asiraich as a nonprofit is going toward families and prisoners, including Rabin’s assassin and two men convicted of murdering Palestinians
By Tia Goldenberg and Uri Blau in partnership with Shomrim
Religious Zionism MK Itamar Ben Gvir, left, and adviser Chanamel Dorfman. (Screen capture/Channel 13; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 18, 2022, 7:35 pm
Top Ben Gvir aide listed as legal adviser for group that donates to Rabin assassin
After report revealed Chanamel Dorfman helped establish organization that bankrolls incarcerated Jewish terrorists, follow-up reveals that those assisted also include Yigal Amir
By ToI Staff
Yigal Amir, the convicted assassin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, seen during a court hearing in Tel Aviv, November 1, 2007. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
November 8, 2022, 8:52 am
Rabin’s killer said Shin Bet ‘didn’t know anything’ about plot, refuting Smotrich
In uproar over far-right MK blaming security service for encouraging 1995 assassination, TV airs old clips from Yigal Amir probe in which he says Shin Bet ‘never could have known’
By ToI Staff
Yigal Amir, appearing in court in 2004. (Yoram Rubin/Flash90/File)
December 29, 2020, 10:35 am
Rabin assassin hires prominent lawyer to work for his early release
Yoram Sheftel to appeal against law barring pardoning or commutation of prison sentence for anyone convicted of murdering PM, claiming it singles out Yigal Amir
By ToI Staff
Israelis gather at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv for a memorial ceremony marking 25 years since the assassination of late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, held on November 7, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 7, 2020, 10:12 pm
Thousands attend Rabin memorial rally in Tel Aviv, 25 years after assassination
Headlining event, opposition leader Lapid vows to defend Israel from ‘those trying to destroy it from within’
By ToI Staff
Yigal Amir, the convicted assassin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, seen during a court hearing in Tel Aviv, November 1, 2007. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
November 4, 2020, 2:27 pm
Court rejects request by Rabin’s assassin for furlough for son’s bar mitzvah
Yigal Amir, who hasn’t been granted prison leave since murdering PM in 1995, took case to court after prison service denied his bid
By ToI Staff
Yigal Amir, the convicted assassin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, seen during a court hearing in Tel Aviv, November 1, 2007. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
November 2, 2020, 5:24 pm
Rabin’s assassin requests prison furlough to attend son’s bar mitzvah
Israel Prisons Service rejects bid by Yigal Amir, who hasn’t been granted furlough since murdering PM in 1995; service believes court will also block move
By ToI Staff
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