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  Yigal Amir - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yigal Amir (Hebrew: יגאל עמיר) (born May 23, 1970) is the Israeli assassin of the Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin.
Yigal Amir was born to an Orthodox Jewish family in the Israeli town of Herzliya.
Amir was held in isolation in the Be'er Sheva Prison, and was moved to the Ayalon Prison in 2003.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yigal_Amir   (1047 words)

  
 CNN - Rabin's killer appears in court - Nov. 7, 1995   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Jewish law student Yigal Amir told the judge the assassination was meant to halt the Mideast peace process.
Yigal Amir's preliminary hearing was held under tight security with no spectators and lasted 10 minutes.
Amir's family has hired an attorney, but Amir told the judge he did not want to be represented.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9511/rabin/amir/11-06   (639 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: Slain Leader's Legacy Lives On, Assassin Admits
Yigal Amir, the 29-year-old religious extremist who is serving a life sentence for Rabin's assassination, also said he favors Rabin's protege — Labor party leader Ehud Barak — in the upcoming elections.
Geula Amir is allowed to speak to her son, Yigal Amir, for 15 minutes each day by phone.
Amir believes that Netanyahu is going out of his way to punish extreme right-wingers like himself, and that Netanyahu deserves to lose.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/daily/may99/amir14.htm   (1491 words)

  
 Bob Baker's Newsthinking
Amir was born in 1970, the second son of Shlomo and Geula Amir, who still live in the same stucco house with the red-tile roof.
Amir and a school friend were dispatched to Riga, the Latvian capital, under the auspices of the B'nei Akiva, a nationalist religious youth movement.
Amir argued with friends that even the commandment "Thou shalt not kill" does not apply in the case of Rabin, because the prime minister, by handing over Jewish holy lands to the Arabs, was blocking the redemption of the Jewish people.
www.newsthinking.com /story.cfm?SID=106   (5440 words)

  
 Murder in the Name of God
Amir also believes that there is only one guideline for fixing the borders of the Land of Israel: the Divine Promise made to the Patriarch Abraham: "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates" (Genesis 15:17).
Yigal was rarely at home during the week, as he left for school early in the morning and did not return until nighttime.
Amir believed that either Rabin was a callow fool who had been manipulated by the left or that he had deliberately lied to the people in presenting himself as a hawk, to win support from the moderate right.
partners.nytimes.com /books/first/k/karpin-murder.html   (7946 words)

  
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Amir is claiming to have heard a rumor on a bus that Ben Gvir was planning to murder Rabin that night.
Amir has so far correctly told about the dead bodyguard, the frame up of the Kahalani brothers, the reason the bodyguards shouted, 'Blanks,' the fact that Raviv supplied the gun with the blanks, that the bodyguards cleared a path for the fake killer and also implicated Shimon Peres.
Amir: Your conclusions are unconnected to it all.
www.geocities.com /freepages4all/Amir.htm   (10700 words)

  
 Rabin's assassin found guilty of conspiracy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Yigal Amir's brother Hagai and friend Dror Adani were convicted of the same charges.
Yigal Amir, 26, already is serving a life term for the Nov. 4 assassination of Rabin at a Tel Aviv peace rally.
Yigal Amir told the court that his brother had suggested ways of killing Rabin, but that he eventually concluded Hagai's intentions were not serious.
www.usatoday.com /news/index/nrabin01.htm   (334 words)

  
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Even Amir will be permitted to bring two beverage bottles with him that he can purchase at the prison canteen as well as glatt kosher food that he receives in his cell.
Peace Now Secretary-General Yariv Oppenheimer criticized Yigal Amir’s conjugal visit with Larissa Trimbobler Tuesday, saying that “the next few hours are a disgrace to Israeli democracy, which gave in to the murderer, Yigal Amir, and allowed him to carry out his plot”.
They claim that Yigal Amir is in an uplifted mood in before the upcoming conjugal visit that will take place Tuesday in the Ayalon Prison for no less than 10 hours.
www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3318833,00.html   (745 words)

  
 Publication
Some of Yigal Amir’s friends told inquisitive journalists that Navah’s parents had forced her to end her relationship with him or that it was he who had left her rather than she him (Karpin and Friedman, 1998, pp.
On the one hand, Yigal unconsciously identified with his “strong” mother, but on the other hand he was angry with her for dominating his father and for not letting him, Yigal, develop a separate and independent adult existence.
By assassinating Rabin, Yigal Amir unconsciously fulfilled his mother’s wishes, as expressed in his name; as he himself tells it, by killing the evil prime minister he has redeemed the Land of Israel (his idealized mother) from her sufferings and rescued her from disaster.
www.healthsystem.virginia.edu /internet/csmhi/Vol12Falk.cfm   (12523 words)

  
 Arutz Sheva - Israel National News
Yigal Amir, who has barely ever denied assassinating PM Yitzchak Rabin, is now strongly considering requesting a new trial - now that the case prosecutor has raised some major questions herself.
According to his wife, Larissa Trimbobler, Yigal was surprised to hear that the murderer came as near as Rabin's jacket.
Coincidentally, Amir's brother Haggai, who is serving a 12-year sentence for his role in the assassination, was brought before a Netanya Magistrates Court judge Monday.
www.israelnationalnews.com /news.php3?id=92079   (829 words)

  
 israelinsider: politics: Yigal Amir's fiancee uses blog to suggest Rabin assassination conspiracy
Larisa Trimbobler, the fiancee of Yigal Amir, who was convicted of murdering of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, has been publishing a weblog in which she speaks of her meetings with Amir and about the murder of Rabin.
"For Yigal, the significance was that it was a mixture of rational and religious motives.
She mentions the Goldstein massacre as a decisive factor in Amir's decision to try to kill the Prime Minister: "Yigal was much influenced by the action of Dr. Goldstein.
web.israelinsider.com /Articles/Politics/4558.htm   (876 words)

  
 Labor Party Issues Police Complaint Against Barry Chamish
Yigal Amir, who murdered Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, submitted a request to the Prison Service several days ago asking that he be allowed to receive fertility treatments so his partner, Larissa Trimbobler, could bear children.
Amir, who is serving a life sentence and is considered a security prisoner, asked the Ayalon prison director to allow the treatments.
It could be inferred that Amir's "marriage" to Trimbovler is intended to cover up serious crimes that led directly to his turning as an agent of the Shabak's Jewish Department and later to his becoming their patsy for the Rabin assassination.
www.rense.com /general67/complaint.htm   (1081 words)

  
 Yigal Amir blames Shimon Peres for the murder of Yitzhak Rabin
Yigal Amir was arrested the night of Yitzhak Rabin's death on November 4th.
I was at the Yigal Amir house in Herzlia and met Larissa at a restaurant.
Yigal Amir has to be persuaded to convince his Mom, brothers, etc. to go along with the lie (99%).
www.yigalamir.com /videos/amir-yitzhak-rabin-murder.htm   (1664 words)

  
 Code Finding about Yigal Amir, "The Assassin"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
"Yigal Amir" was arrested for "Shooting" "Yitzhak" "Rabin" in "November" of "1995" and was tried and convicted as a "Murderer".
Amir believed that during the "Political" process of the "Peace" "Process", Rabin was wrong to agree to give more land away to the Palestinians and that by doing so he was a "Traitor".
"Yigal Amir," the central term is crossed by "Rabin" (the Prime Minister who he assassinated), and "Murdered." "Murdered" crosses and nearly touches "Rabin." The other related words, including the tragic date all add to the significance of the code.
www.thebiblecodes.com /news/dec/amir.htm   (231 words)

  
 Conviction of Balinese Bomber Amrozi Recalls Rabin Assassin Yigal Amir
Amir could disregard the civil law of the State of Israel and kill its political leader because he believed that Jewish religious law has a higher value and that it mandated that Rabin should be killed because he endangered Jewish lives.
Amir was educated in Israel's religious school system and attended the religious Bar Ilan University.
Amir, unfortunately, still has plenty to smile about: the settlers whose cause he espoused still sit upon occupied Palestinian land, their interests defended by a government composed mainly of political leaders who could not stomach the limited concessions Rabin made to the Palestinians while he was alive.
www.wrmea.com /archives/October_2003/0310036.html   (1529 words)

  
 The Kempler Video of Yitzhak Rabin's Assassination
Yigal Amir spent the spring and summer of 1992 in Riga, Latvia on assignment from the Liaison Department of the Prime Minister's Office, usually called Nativ.
Amir was in Riga for a reason, and the mild-mannered soldier returned in the fall of 1992 with a changed personality.
Yigal Amir finished his army service in a combat unit and was sent to the Soviet Union by an intelligence branch of the Prime Minister's Office which saw him assigned to Riga.
kemplervideo.blogspot.com   (6479 words)

  
 Rabin killer Yigal Amir to begin conjugal visit with wife - Haaretz - Israel News
Yigal Amir, the jailed killer of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, received a 10-hour-long conjugal visit with his wife, Larisa Trimbobler, on Tuesday.
The prison service announced in March that Amir would be allowed to provide sperm samples for the artificial insemination of his wife, after rejecting the couple's demands to be allowed conjugal visits on the grounds that he could use them to pass political messages to his supporters.
In Amir's petition to the court last week, he said the fertility treatments that the Israel Prison Service approved for Trimbobler, an immigrant from the former Soviet Union and a divorced mother of four, could have negative long-term effects on her health.
www.haaretz.com /hasen/spages/778758.html   (618 words)

  
 Yigal Amir: Religious fanatic or Zionist - Jewish Media Resources
Yigal Amir rejected the defining haredi concept of da'at Torah when he boasted, 'I consulted no rabbis.
BUT IF Amir's heinous crime had no basis in haredi theology or sociology, it was hardly the anomaly in Zionist history it is portrayed as being.
After the assassination, the Histadrut journal Ha'olam foreshadowed Yigal Amir by justifying the murder with copious citations of halachic authorities.
www.jewishmediaresources.com /article/75   (894 words)

  
 israelinsider: politics: Israeli human rights group asks prison authorities to let Yigal Amir wed
Yaov Leff of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel said the group had sent the legal adviser of the Prisons Service a letter asking him to permit the marriage of Yigal Amir to Larisa Trimbobler, a divorced mother of four who fell in love with Amir while he was in prison.
Amir was convicted for killing Rabin at a November 1995 peace rally in Tel Aviv and sentenced to life in prison.
Trimbobler and Amir, both Orthodox Jews, insist they were married secretly over the phone by a rabbi last year.
web.israelinsider.com /Articles/Politics/5352.htm   (510 words)

  
 ADL WELCOMES YIGAL AMIR VERDICT
New York, NY, March 27, 1996...The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) welcomed the guilty verdict in the trial of Yigal Amir for the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
A three-judge court today found Yigal Amir guilty of the premeditated murder of the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and sentenced him to life imprisonment, plus six additional years for aggravated assault.
Although the ruling does not lessen the pain inflicted by Yigal Amir, it does send a very strong message that radicalism and violence will not be tolerated.
www.adl.org /PresRele/IslME_62/2705_62.asp   (135 words)

  
 Rabin Assassin Seeks Early Release, Israeli PM's Killer Still Unrepentant 10 Years After Shooting - CBS News
Yigal Amir killed Rabin on Nov. 4, 1995 to prevent the handover of land to the Palestinians.
"This family doesn't understand that Yigal Amir killed a prime minister and that if he doesn't rot in a grave he should rot in jail for the rest of his life," he said.
"Yigal Amir is alive because of an operational failure," said Gillon, who was abroad at the time of the assassination and resigned afterward.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2005/10/30/world/main994827.shtml   (727 words)

  
 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Assassinated, 1995
A 27 year-old Jewish law student named Yigal Amir was apprehended on the scene and confessed to the crime.
He was unrepentant and later told prosecutors that the assassination was meant to halt the Mideast peace process.
Yigal Amir's views and mad act were utterly rejected by Israelis, even Rabin's most severe critics.
www.palestinefacts.org /pf_current_rabin_assassination.php   (567 words)

  
 Seven Years Since the Rabin Assassination: The Fruits of Yigal Amir's Victory - Ami Isseroff
Seven years after the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, we need to ask ourselves if Yigal Amir, his assassin, is gaining his objective after all.
The third fact is that regardless of foreign policy, the settlement adventure is warping Israeli society, and transforming Zionism from a progressive movement of national rebirth into the standard bearer of reactionary religious zealotry.
The danger to Israeli society is the real damage caused by the assassination of Yitshak Rabin, and that damage may be a fatal wound to Zionism.
www.mideastweb.org /rabin2002.htm   (1138 words)

  
 Yitzhak Rabin
The Kempler video of the Yitzhak Rabin assassination proves Yigal Amir couldn't have acted alone in the Rabin assassination plot.
Shabak agent Yigal Amir was part of the plot for a staged assassination using blanks.
Yigal Amir didn't realize Rabin would be murdered.
yitzhakrabin.blogspot.com   (6606 words)

  
 COURT ROOM ART - YIGAL AMIR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Judge Levy (center) is holding Amir's Beretta, the weapon used in the assination.
Liz Fainberg, courtroom sketch artist of the Igal Amir Trial for Israel Television - First Channel, CBS News, CNN International News and the Jerusalem Report Magazine was born in New York, December 1963.
She emigrated to Israel and became a citizen in 1984, where she served in the military from 1985 to 1987.
www.thegremlin.com /courtart.fainberg.html   (691 words)

  
 AMIR DID NOT MURDER RABIN
A suspected shooter, Yigal Amir, was caught by police and transferred to the Yarkon Division police station.
But even if the one particle found in Amir's hair was from gunpowder and not a cap, the explanation is simple.
Neither gunpowder nor metal residues were found on Amir's hands in two separate tests, by two competent police technicians.
www.stargods.org /BC_Amir.html   (831 words)

  
 Rabin's Assassination - Open Questions
Why did Yigal Amir hastly and proudly confess on his way to the police station that he had done the action?
At what distance Yigal Amir was behind the Prime Minister shooting the gun?
What is the difference between Amir's gun and the other F84 gun brought to the Police?
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/9302/Rabin/Quest.htm   (1181 words)

  
 COURT ROOM ART - YIGAL AMIR page 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Pictured above is the courtroom on March 9, 1996 as Eran Ejalbo, from the "Ayal" organization (an ultra right-wing student organization at Bar Ilan) testifies to the court that Avisha Raviv was the person responsible for inciting Amir to murder.
Pictured above are Judges Rotlevy, Levy and Murdrich (seated rear), Psychologist Gabriel Weiss, co-counsel, Amir and Attorney Fleishman, listening to testimpny that Amir is fit to stand trial and has an unusually high IQ of 140.
Pictured above is the end of the trial as Judge Levy reads the court's sentence of life in prison for the execution of Rabin and 6 additional years for the wounding of Rabin's bodyguard.
www.thegremlin.com /courtart.fainberg3.html   (473 words)

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