Word: amirs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...UNDER EERIE YELLOW strobe lights at 3 a.m. in Tel Aviv's newly named Yitzhak Rabin Square, Yigal Amir again fired a pistol at a victim less than a yard away. This time the gun was a toy and the Prime Minister, whom Amir assassinated on the same spot 12 days before, was played by a policeman. Amir wore a white bulletproof vest, and a chain around his waist yoked him to police escorts while he coolly re-enacted the killing for official video cameras. "Murderer, die! Maniac! You piece of garbage!" shouted Israelis from behind the barricades...
...acknowledged a complete security breakdown as Rabin descended from the podium at the end of the peace rally. Though close to 20 protective agents were present, Rabin was not cocooned within a ring of bodyguards facing in and out, nor was his back adequately shielded. No one had prevented Amir from hanging around the parking area where Rabin's car waited. Although Shin Bet knew Rabin had received death threats, they did not noticeably tighten their procedures at the giant public rally...
...Yigal Amir's ideas, if not his plans, were shared widely enough on the far right to amply justify a public backlash. Says Rabbi Sholomo Aviner, head of a religious school in Jerusalem: "The students would ask the question--like they were asking what food should be eaten on the Sabbath--'Is it O.K. under Torah law to kill the Prime Minister?' Everyone was talking violence. There were hundreds like Amir...
...young extremist and that animate the Israeli far right today--especially the notion that the Jews are a friendless people, opposed by the entire world. And it must re-examine the consequences of centralizing the Holocaust in Jewish identity. Both Dr. Baruch Goldstein, the Hebron mass murderer, and Yigal Amir emerged from politically right-wing "religious Zionism"--the community in which I was raised and which, perhaps more than any other, has absorbed the Holocaust into its world view. Mainstream right-wing leaders must tell their followers that the Holocaust belongs to the past and offers no blueprint...
Israeli police arrested Hagai Amir, brother of Rabin's confessed killer Yigal Amir, as a suspected accomplice in the slaying. Authorities discovered a large cache of weapons, including explosives, at Yigal Amir's home. Also taken into custody for possible involvement: Avishai Raviv, the leader of a radical right-wing group; a member of an elite army unit and his father; and three other men with links to Yigal Amir...