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Yigal Amir (born May 31, 1970) is an Israeli right-wing extremist who assassinated the incumbent prime minister of Israel , Yitzhak Rabin , on November 4, 1995, at the conclusion of a rally in Tel Aviv , Israel. 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 . He was later sentenced to an additional eight years for conspiracy to murder. Amir has never expressed regret over the assassination. 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. There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).
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Amir was a right wing idealist who had strenuously opposed Rabin's signing of the Oslo Accords .
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Yigal Amir ( , born May 23, 1970) is the Israeli assassin of Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin .The assassination took place November 4, 1995 at the conclusion of a rally in Tel Aviv .Amir is currently serving a life sentence for murder plus 14 years for conspiracy to murder Rabin on different occasions and for injuring Rabin's bodyguard , Yoram Rubin, under aggravating circumstances.
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Yigal Amir ( ; born May 23, 1970) is an Israeli assassin and activist who was responsible for the assassination of Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin .The assassination took place on November 4, 1995 at the conclusion of a rally in Tel Aviv .Amir is serving a life sentence for murder plus six years for injuring Rabin's bodyguard , Yoram Rubin, under aggravating circumstances.He was later sentenced to an additional 8 years for conspiracy to murder.Rabin's assassin gets life in prison, Haaretz
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Israeli serving life sentence for murder Yigal Amir ( ; born May 23, 1970) is an Israeli law student who assassinated Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin . The assassination took place on November 4, 1995, at the conclusion of a rally in Tel Aviv , Israel. Amir is serving a life sentence for murder plus six years for injuring Rabin's bodyguard , Yoram Rubin, under aggravating circumstances. He was later sentenced to an additional eight years for conspiracy to murder.
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Israeli extremist and murder convict (born 1970) Yigal Amir ( ; born May 31, 1970) is an Israeli right-wing extremist who assassinated former Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin .At the time of the murder, he was a law student at Bar-Ilan University . The assassination took place on November 4, 1995, at the conclusion of a rally in Tel Aviv , Israel. Amir is serving a life sentence for murder plus six years for injuring Rabin's bodyguard , Yoram Rubin, under aggravating circumstances. He was later sentenced to an additional eight years for conspiracy to murder. Amir has never expressed regret for the assassination.
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