Yigal Amir

The line we cannot cross: Israel must never free Yigal Amir - editorial

Calls to free Yigal Amir cross a fundamental democratic line. Israel must never rehabilitate the man who tried to determine its future through murder.

Yigal Amir
Gadi Eisenkot, head of the Yashar party, attends a conference in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, July 9, 2026

Eisenkot demands police launch probe into politically motivated assault of Yashar! party activist

 PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog and his wife, Michal, stand at the graves of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and his wife, Leah, on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem this week, marking the 29th anniversary of Rabin’s assassination when he served as prime minister.

Let's cool it and stop fanning the flames of conflict - editorial

 THEN-PRIME MINISTER Yitzhak Rabin and then-foreign minister Shimon Peres attend a Labor Party meeting in 1993. Rabin had been kept in the dark by Peres about the talks in Oslo, the writer asserts.

On this day: 29 years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin


Yigal Amir's wife registers new party

Says she wants retrial for her husband

Larissa Trembovler Amir, wife of Yitzhak Rabin's assassin Yigal Amir, registers her Fair Trial Party

Yigal Amir's wife to register a party with the promise of releasing him

The party hopes to look into previous trial convictions.

Yigal Amir

Former Mossad chief: I fear another Yigal Amir walks among us

Shabtai Shavit warned in a tweet of the possibility of another politically motivated homicide in Israel. Yair Netanyahu responded: “I get threats, send them to the police and get no response.”

Shabtai Shavit

Mordechai Kedar: Yigal Amir didn't kill Yitzhak Rabin

During a speech in support of Prime Minister Netanyahu in Petak Tikva, the Bar-Ilan University professor claimed that he had seen documents refuting that Amir was the real killer.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a memorial ceremony for the late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem as Israel marks the 22nd anniversary of Rabin's killing by an ultra-nationalist Jewish assassin, November 1, 2017

Remembering Rabin

So how about a different strategy? Let’s place the walls on top of each other maybe if we build upwards… Sound familiar?

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (right) and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres wave to a huge crowd at the peace rally on November 4, 1995.

‘Incitement’ examines how a terrible era spawned a killer

Incitement, which in Hebrew is titled Days of Awe—the days of reflection between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur—seems to want Israeli society to take stock of itself in light of this story.

‘Incitement’

"Incitement", a film about Yigal Amir, wins Ophir Award for Best Picture

Incitement will now be Israel’s official selection for consideration for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nomination.

Incitement wins Ophir Award

Following talk with singer, Yigal Amir sent to solitary confinement

Murderer of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin punished by prison authorities after he used his phone privileges to contact rap artist "The Shadow."

Yigal Amir

Labor asks Elections Committee to reject 'Free Yigal Amir' party

“As the leader of Rabin’s party, I see this party as crossing a bloody red line,” Amir Peretz wrote to the head of the Central Elections Committee, Supreme Court Justice Hanan Melczer.

Yigal Amir

Channel 20 uses Yigal Amir as gimmick for new talk show

While condemning Amir’s actions as anti-democratic, the two anchors said that what he had to say was nonetheless a legitimate subject of journalistic interest.

THE NEW CHANNEL 20 show, ‘Riklin and Magal’