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Avishai Raviv was an agent of Israel 's Shin Bet or Shabak, Israel's domestic intelligence service whose mission was to monitor the activities of right-wing extremists.¹ His code name was 'Champagne'. Raviv was a student at Tel Aviv University and was expelled for violent behavior. He was later a student at Bar Ilan University .² To attain insider information, Raviv struck up a friendship with Yigal Amir , a religious law student from Bar-Ilan University , who fiercely opposed the Oslo Accords . Amir was one of the founders of the right-wing group Eyal, and organized protests against the Accords.³ At one protest, he was filmed with a picture of Rabin in an SS uniform prior to Rabin's murder. Raviv allegedly knew of Yigal Amir's plans to assassinate Israel's prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin , based on a controversial classification of handing over Jewish land in the category of "din rodef" ("law of the pursuer"). According to Jewish law, anyone who is classified as a pursuer, must be killed immediately. The classification of a forfeiter of land as a rodef states that "If a Jew gives up the land of other Jews to Goyim , and he persists in this, that is, he gives up the land of three or more Jews, he is a Rodef ." Uri Dan , a journalist close to Ariel Sharon , wrote that witnesses heard Raviv tell Amir: "Be a man! Kill him already!" After Rabin was assassinated, the journalist Amnon Abramowitch revealed that Raviv was an agent of the Shabak. Raviv was brought to trial in 2000 for not preventing Rabin's assassination. Raviv mounted a successful defense on the grounds that he had just been doing his job and events had spun out of control.⁴

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Avishai Raviv was an agent of Israel 's Shin Bet or Shabak, Israel's domestic intelligence service . Some rightists say his mission was to encourage and fabricate activities of right-wing extremists. His code name was 'Champagne'. Raviv was a student at Tel Aviv University and was expelled for violent behavior. He was later a student at Bar Ilan University . At one protest, Raviv was filmed with a picture of Rabin in an SS uniform prior to Rabin's murder. Raviv allegedly knew of Yigal Amir's plans to assassinate Israel's prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin , based on a controversial classification of handing over " Jewish land" in the category of " din rodef " ("law of the pursuer"). According to Jewish law, anyone who is classified as a pursuer, must be killed immediately. The classification of a forfeiter of land as a rodef states that "If a Jew gives up the land of other Jews to Goyim , and he persists in this, that is, he gives up the land of three or more Jews, he is a Rodef ." Uri Dan, a journalist close to Ariel Sharon , wrote that witnesses heard Raviv tell Amir: "Be a man! Kill him already!" After Rabin was assassinated, the journalist Amnon Abramowitch revealed that Raviv was an agent of the Shabak. Raviv was brought to trial in 2000 for not preventing Rabin's assassination. Raviv mounted a successful defense on the grounds that he had just been doing his job and events had spun out of control.

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Avishai Raviv (born 8 June 1967, ) was an agent of Israel 's Shin Bet or Shabak, Israel's domestic intelligence service . Some rightists say his mission was to encourage and fabricate activities of right-wing extremists. His code name was 'Champagne'. Raviv was a student at Tel Aviv University and was expelled for violent behavior. He was later a student at Bar Ilan University . At one protest, Raviv was filmed with an image depicting Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in an SS uniform, prior to Rabin's murder. Raviv allegedly knew of Yigal Amir's plans to assassinate Rabin, based on a controversial classification of handing over " Jewish land" in the category of " din rodef " ("law of the pursuer"). According to Jewish law, anyone who is classified as a pursuer, must be killed immediately. The classification of a forfeiter of land as a rodef states that "If a Jew gives up the land of other Jews to Goyim , and he persists in this, that is, he gives up the land of three or more Jews, he is a rodef ." Uri Dan, a journalist close to Ariel Sharon , wrote that witnesses heard Raviv tell Amir: "Be a man! Kill him already!" After Rabin was assassinated, the journalist Amnon Abramowitch revealed that Raviv was an agent of the Shabak. Raviv was brought to trial in 2000 for not preventing Rabin's assassination. Raviv mounted a successful defense on the grounds that he had just been doing his job and events had spun out of control.

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Avishai Raviv Avishai Raviv (born 8 June 1967, ) is a former agent of Israel 's Shin Bet (Shabak), Israel's domestic intelligence service , whose mission was to monitor the activities of right-wing extremists. His code name was 'Champagne'.

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Israeli spy for Shin Bet (born 1967) Avishai Raviv ( Hebrew : אבישי רביב ; born 8 June 1967) is a former agent of Israel 's Shin Bet (Shabak), Israel's domestic intelligence service , whose mission was to monitor the activities of right-wing extremists. His code name was 'Champagne' ( Hebrew : שמפניה , romanized : Shampaniyah ).

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