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


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.

 THE STRAUSS Elite candy factory in Nazareth.

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. 

 Rabin assassin, Yigal Amir.

Right-wing Israeli TV channel boots pundit for calling to free Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin

Strauss Group, one of Israel’s leading food manufacturers, told Channel 14 that it would pause its advertising due to “various hurtful expressions.”

 Yigal Amir, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassin, appears before the Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem, Sept. 8, 2004.

Israeli nonprofit raises funds in US for convicted Jewish extremists - report

Shlom Asiraich has been working with New Jersey-based World of Tzedakah to raise funds for Israeli Jewish extremists imprisoned for serious crimes.

 Amiram Ben Uliel, accused of the Duma arson murder in July 2015 where three members of the Dawabshe family were killed, arrives to a court hearing on his appeal, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on March 7, 2022.

'NOVEMBER': Theatrical production highlighting Rabin's assassination

Now, 27 years on, this shocking event is in danger of being forgotten.

 The cast of NOVEMBER on stage in Jerusalem

Jewish terror as dangerous to Israel as Islamic terror - ex-Shin Bet official

SECURITY AFFAIRS: The former Shin Bet chief for combating Jewish terror discusses his new book on the Rabin assassination.

THE SHIN BET’S former counterterrorism head Hezi Kalo.

The government’s assassination of Israel’s character - opinion

Forgetting the purpose of the event – to memorialize the slain premier – Yair Lapid proceeded, instead, to tout his motley coalition’s “victory.”

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (R). October 18, 2021.

Yigal Amir to court: The personal law against me is wrong

His lawyer, Yoram Sheftel, told N12 that “the hour had come to free Yigal Amir.”

Israeli prison guards sit beside Yigal Amir (C), the assassin of Yitzhak Rabin, during a hearing in Tel Aviv district court, November 1, 2007

Yigal Amir's request to attend son's bar mitzvah denied

Amir, the man convicted of assassinating former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, has never been granted a furlough during his 25 years of incarceration.

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Don't let Yigal Amir be furloughed from prison

It appears that the lines of opposition within Israeli society are getting thicker with time, a trend that does not bode well.

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