May 31, 1970 - Yigal Amir
A law student radicalized by opposition to the Oslo Accords, he carried out one of the most consequential political assassinations of the late twentieth century, killing a sitting Israeli prime minister at a peace rally. The act destabilized Israel's peace process at a critical juncture, and its long-term effects on the region remain debated by historians. That he continues to draw organized campaigns for his release — and that the Knesset found it necessary to pass a law specifically preventing his pardon — speaks to the lasting political fault lines his act exposed.
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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. 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.
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