Yigal Amir

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

Given our long history, we Jews have a short memory. Baseless hatred resulted in the destruction of the Temple, and the same internecine strife ended with Rabin’s assassination.

NOVEMBER 18, 2024|ByJPOST EDITORIAL

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.

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

While officials hold an annual commemoration for Rabin on Mount Herzl, the surviving family of the visionary told Ynet they were requesting that this year’s be cancelled due to the war.

NOVEMBER 4, 2024|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

THE STRAUSS Elite candy factory in Nazareth.

Religious Zionist rabbis call to boycott Strauss Group products

The letter was issued after the Strauss Group announced it would stop advertising on Channel 14 after right-wing pundit Ari Shamai called for Yigal Amir's release, who murdered Yitzhak Rabin.

AUGUST 3, 2023|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Rabin's PMO director: 'I am sure that Yigal Amir will get out of prison'

“The time has come to free the assassin Yigal Amir,” Shamai stated on Channel 14's “The Patriots” panel show on Sunday.

AUGUST 1, 2023|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Metzger: Amir's reaction a 'disgrace, chutzpah'

Chief rabbi decries Hagai Amir's lack of remorse for involvement in Rabin murder upon release from jail; Labor MKs honor Rabin.

MAY 4, 2012ByBEN HARTMAN, JPOST.COM STAFF

Rabbi Metzger: Amir's reaction a 'disgrace, chutzpah'

Residents of settlement where Amir to spend weekend hang signs reading "thou shall not kill,"; Yacimovich reacts to Hagai Amir's release with "nausea, disgust."

MAY 4, 2012ByJPOST.COM STAFF

Hagai Amir, co-conspirator in Rabin murder freed

Amir walks out of Ayalon Prison a free man, after serving a 16-year sentence for conspiracy to commit murder, possession of a firearm for his part in the Rabin assassination; activists protest outside gate.

MAY 4, 2012ByBEN HARTMAN, JPOST.COM STAFF

Yigal Amir's brother, co-conspirator, to be freed

Amir was sentenced to 16 years for conspiracy to commit murder, possession of a firearm for his part in the Rabin assassination.

MAY 3, 2012ByBEN HARTMAN

No exceptions to ‘Thou shalt not kill’

My parents taught me that killing is wrong, especially to settle an argument. So why did some of my friends say it was okay to kill Yitzhak Rabin?

NOVEMBER 13, 2011BySHALEV FRIEDMAN

On Rabin and Gedalya

Just as I fast on Tzom Gedalya each year, I also fast on the 12th of Heshvan, the anniversary of Rabin’s assassination.

NOVEMBER 5, 2011ByILAN BLOCH

Peres eulogizes Rabin at assassination site

At memorial, president declares late PM as one of the great leaders of Israel: "He paved path to peace, history will respect his memory."

NOVEMBER 4, 2011ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

TA Rabin memorial defaced with far-right graffiti

Security guard who caught vandal tells 'Post': I saw him throw paint and grabbed him; suspect released with restraining order from Tel Aviv.

OCTOBER 14, 2011ByYAAKOV LAPPIN

Vandalized Rabin memorial in Tel Aviv 311

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.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011ByJOANNA PARASZCZUK

Yigal Amir allowed Torah study partner

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

AUGUST 31, 2011ByJOANNA PARASZCZUK