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

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.

MAY 26, 2011ByYAAKOV LAPPIN

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."

JANUARY 3, 2011ByJPOST.COM STAFF

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.

DECEMBER 7, 2010By JPOST.COM STAFF

‘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.

NOVEMBER 25, 2010ByRON FRIEDMAN

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.

NOVEMBER 15, 2010By JPOST.COM STAFF

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.

NOVEMBER 14, 2010By JPOST.COM STAFF

Another Tack: Shades of the shadow

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

OCTOBER 29, 2010BySARAH HONIG

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.

OCTOBER 19, 2010ByJERUSALEM POST READERS

Lador rejects request to cancel Har-Shefi’s conviction

Petition is not the first, so there’s no reason for sensationalized reports, says Deputy State Attorney for Special Tasks Shai Nitzam.

OCTOBER 18, 2010ByDAN IZENBERG

State Attorney rejects Har-Shefi retrial petition

Moshe Lador dismisses request to cancel conviction of Rabin assassin Yigal Amir's girlfriend, found guilty of falling to prevent incident.

OCTOBER 17, 2010ByDAN IZENBERG