Word: yigal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next to him and obviously weren't suspicious. You see him standing there cool as a cucumber for a very long time. It was clear how he was going to do it. He shoots Rabin with the gun virtually against his skin." Beyer says the tape clearly shows that Yigal Amir, who has confessed to plotting to kill both Rabin and his dovish successor as prime minister, Shimon Peres, had at least two chances to kill Peres as well. "He decided not to kill Peres simply because then he would not have had an opportunity to kill Rabin. But there...
This largely abstract culture war that is being waged in Israel seems a million miles away from the cold-blooded assassination of this November. Yigal Amir, after all, murdered Yitzhak Rabin for the purest of political motives...
...assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by a rightwing extremist was not intended as a symbolic act. Yigal Amir meant quite simply to wipe out the leader of a political party and a political process he despised. And that is what...
...Yitzhak Rabin, Shin Bet faces new allegations that one of the young religious zealots arrested for involvement in the murder was actually an informer on the service's own payroll. According to Israeli intelligence sources, the informer never told Shin Bet if he had heard the accused assassin, Yigal Amir, threaten to kill Rabin. A state commission of inquiry is delving into the service's failure to protect Israel's leader from homegrown fanaticism, but regardless of the findings, the stature and morale of the Shin Bet have already been shattered...
Saro-Wiwa was not killed by a little-known individual. Even today we fail to truly comprehend the vicious crimes committed by Lee Harvey Oswald and Yigal Amir. We are horrified to contemplate that their actions were possibly sanctioned by greater authorities in their respective countries...