Word: yigal
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...foreshadowing could be discerned. In the two years since Rabin embarked on his controversial peace with the Palestinians, the farther reaches of Israel's radical right had grown bold in their threats to subvert the process and preserve their dream of a Greater Israel to the Jordan River. Yigal Amir may have acted alone, as he told police, but he had many ideational conspirators...
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...
TIME's Edward Barnes reports that Hagai Amir, brother of Rabin assassin Yigal, has told Israeli police that he and his brother and at least one other Israeli extremist, Dror Adani, had been planning on killing a large number of Arabs with some sort of dramatic incident that would derail the peace process. "That was the reason for the cache of arms and detonating devices discovered at the Yamir house," says Barnes. "It is still unclear at what point the brothers and their friend decided to kill Rabin or whether they were implicated in the other alleged attempts on Rabin...
...mother of the confessed assassin says she is his mother "only in body" and is appalled by what her son did. Geula Amir, a kindergarten teacher in Herzliya, just north of Tel Aviv, told Israel TV that she and her husband raised their son Yigal to respect life. "Shlomo and I have been teaching (our children) love, tolerance, respect," she said. "Today he (Yigal) is not mine. It will stay with me to the grave - the pain and the fear about what can happen to a human being whom you have raised and ... given the very best basis possible." "This...
...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...