Word: yigal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world mourned. Dozens of leaders from across the globe gathered in Jerusalem to pay tribute to a man who sought to bring peace to a nation that has never known peace. As Israel grieved, her people continued to look inward, to try to find where the assassin, Yigal Amir, had nested in the nation's soul...
...this to stop the peace process," Yigal Amir told a Tel Aviv court today. "We need to be cold-hearted." The 25-year-old Israeli law student said he shot and killed Rabin because the prime minister would "give our country to the Arabs." The court ordered Amir held for 15 days while police prepare charges of murder, the attempted murder of Rabin's bodyguard, and involvement in an illegal organization. TIME's Johanna McGeary says that there is no indication yet that Amir was part of a larger conspiracy: "He's one of eight kids...
...Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, said in an article in the New York Times: "Yigal Allon asked Ben-Gurion what was to be done with the civilian population. Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture of `drive them out.' `Driving out' is a term with a harsh ring. Psychologically, this was one of the most difficult actions we undertook...
...museum at the request of then-NELC Professor Annemarie Schimmel, and met with Mrs. Joy Ungerleider-Mayerson who later established the Dorot Professorship which Stager now holds. We were honored be trained for "The City of David: Discoveries From the Excavations" by Tamar Shiloh, the widow of Yigal Shiloh who excavated the site. The Semitic Museum was a small place where visitors could enjoy an intimacy not found in other places. The wonderful comments in the guestbook testify to their feelings and to the good publicity which Harvard gained...