Word: avishai
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...before he felt the bullet." The Israeli press has been filled with leaks disclosing testimony of incompetence and bungling. But it was the revelation that Shin Bet had a mole inside the extremist movement that most grievously wounded the agency. Although the government refuses to confirm the charge and Avishai Raviv, the leader of the extremist Eyal movement and alleged informer, himself denies it, details of his clandestine employment have been flooding the Israeli press. Sources say the 28-year-old Raviv was on Shin Bet's payroll for nearly eight years, during which he was allowed to promote zealous...
Those four and the others in custody shared the mind-set of Jewish extremism, and made plans to attack Arabs. But security officials believe the suspects outside the inner circle may have known only generally about the assassination plot and failed to stop it. Last week Avishai Raviv, the acknowledged leader of the secretive extremist group Eyal, was released under house arrest, indicating he was probably not involved in the assassination itself. It is thought he may have turned state's witness. But investigators are not finding it easy to crack all the suspects. While some, like Hagai Amir, quickly...
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...