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.

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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 to spend 6 more months in solitude

Yitzhak Rabin's assassin has been in solitude for 15 years; judge says he is 'an object of admiration' to extremist factions.

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Yigal Amir allowed Torah study partner

Prisons Services to monitor Rabin’s assassin’s biweekly sessions.

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Prisons Service seeking ‘study partner’ for Yigal Amir

State prosecutors say search is on for inmate who can study Jewish texts with Amir once every two weeks.

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State considers easing Yigal Amir's prison conditions

Possible change is to allow Rabin's assassin to meet with another prisoner once in two weeks; Amir had rejected "coupled segregation."

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Supreme Court: Yigal Amir to stay in solitary confinement

Judges write that Rabin's killer should be allowed short visits with other prisoners to hold prayer minyan.

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‘Israelis are a forgiving people’

Survey asking Israeli Jewish society questions regarding traumatic events in country’s past finds higher than expected levels of forgiveness.

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Court debates removing Yigal Amir from confinement

State considers moving Rabin assassin to coupled segregation; Shin Bet opposes, says he poses risk of ideological indoctrination to inmates.

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Rights group calls for Yigal Amir's release from isolation

Physicians for Human Rights objects to "psychological damage" caused by solitary confinement of Yitzhak Rabin's assassin.

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Another Tack: Shades of the shadow

Only Israeli judges possess infallible preternatural penetrating powers to ferret out a girl’s deepest and darkest secrets.

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October 19: Remembering the Rachels

The Corrie family seeks an apology and closure. There will be no apologies from the Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade, or the like, to their victims' families any time soon.

The Jerusalem Post