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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...
...Kahane moved his operations to Israel in the 1970s, where he began a political movement called Kach (Thus). It wasn't long before Kahane's toxic rhetoric fomented murder. In 1983, during a rally held by the Peace Now leftist group, a lone right-winger--not much different from Rabin's alleged assassin, Yigal Amir--threw a grenade into the crowd, killing one Israeli man. It was the first time since the nation was founded that Jews had used violence against fellow Jews for political reasons...
...weeks ago, President Rabin came to lunch at TIME during his visit to New York City for the U.N.'s 50th anniversary. He had frequently met with TIME editors, but on what was to be our last encounter, his mood seemed especially reflective. Some of his comments...
Just as the official mourning period for slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin ended, his apparent successor moved quickly to keep the peace process on track. Early this morning, Israeli troops lowered the Israeli flag over their military headquarters, got into 14 military vehicles and drove out of the West Bank town of Jenin. As they left, Palestinian police, followed by a jubilant crowd of Arabs, entered the building and raised the Palestinian flag. Jenin becomes the first town to gain autonomy under the agreement signed by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Rabin last September. In fact, Acting Prime Minister Shimon...
Barnes says that Israeli police have been sweeping the settlements, questioning anyone who knew Amir, but have yet to find solid signs of a plot to kill Rabin. "I think the police were simply taken by surprise that Jews kill other Jews and are cracking down out of frustration," says Barnes. "The interesting thing is that Amir fits the profile of a lot of terrorists. He's a loner and a former soldier who seemed especially sensitive to the rhetoric of the radical right. Just like Timothy McVeigh, the man charged with blowing up the Oklahoma federal building. I think...