Origins & Early Life

Yigal Amir (born May 31, 1970) is an Israeli murderer who assassinated the incumbent prime minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, on November 4, 1995, at the conclusion of a rally supporting the Oslo Accords in Tel Aviv. At the time of the murder, he was a law student at Bar-Ilan University. Amir is serving a life sentence for murder plus six years for injuring Rabin's bodyguard. Numerous radical right-wing Israeli organisations have carried out campaigns for Amir's release.

Pivotal Works & Achievements

The Shin Bet security service has assessed that Amir remains a threat to national security. The Knesset passed a law preventing the president of Israel from pardoning the assassin of a prime minister. Amir was born in Herzliya to an Israeli Orthodox Yemenite Jewish family, the second of eight children. His father Shlomo was a sofer (scribe) who held a post supervising the kosher slaughtering of chickens and taught Shabbat lessons at a local synagogue. His mother Geula was a kindergarten teacher and ran a nursery school in the family home's backyard.

Enduring Legacy & Impact

Amir attended the Independent Education System-run Wolfsohn School in Herzliya, and Hayishuv Hahadash, a high school yeshiva in Tel Aviv. According to...

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