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That someone turned out to be Amir, a third-year law student at the religious Bar Ilan University. One of eight children raised in an Orthodox family in Herzliyya, a town north of Tel Aviv, Amir was quiet and unprepossessing, except when it came to the subject of peace with the Arabs. He fraternized with members of a right-wing group called Eyal, also known as the Fighting Jews. According to a friend, Amir once said he felt he had to do something to stop the peace process, but the friend dismissed Amir's words as an empty threat...
...hour period between death and burial, Rabin's state funeral was put off a day--until Monday afternoon. But Israelis themselves poured out their confused and troubled emotions on Sunday in a remarkable rite of homage. As a motorized cortege bore the warrior statesman up the highway from Tel Aviv to the Holy City, teary-eyed mourners lined the route. And when he came to rest in the brilliant blue November afternoon on a catafalque outside the Knesset, hundreds of thousands of Israelis, in a queue two kilometers long, filed quietly past to pay their last respects...
...Prime Minister. In so doing, he found himself competing against a man with whom he would lock horns for the rest of his career. Although Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin never had significant ideological or political differences (and even lived within two blocks of each other in a Tel Aviv suburb), the hostility between them ran so deep that at times they seemed almost to have difficulty pronouncing each other's name. During this period, they emerged as the most promising of a new generation of Israeli leaders; their rivalry would color the nation's politics for the next...
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was shot and killed as he left a peace rally in Tel Aviv. His alleged attacker, a 25-year-old Jewish law student named Yigal Amir, was arrested on the spot. He reportedly said he acted alone, although he has been linked to a tiny extremist group called Eyal, which fiercely rejects Rabin's participation in peace negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organization. "I am very sad and very shocked," said P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat. President Clinton, who called Rabin "a martyr for his nation's peace," will attend Monday's funeral. The Israeli Cabinet...
Eyal, another Kach offshoot, to which Amir has been linked, is a tiny organization based at Tel Aviv's Bar Ilan University. Its activities tend toward threats and harassment rather than outright violence. But its members, like most of the 15,000 or so extremists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, tend to believe that any act, including murder, is justified if it thwarts the peace process. Says University of Pennsylvania political scientist Ian Lustick, an expert on Jewish fundamentalism: "It's the equivalent of the right-wing milieu that led to the Oklahoma City bombing." That event shook...