Jigal Amir

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Jigal Amir (born May 23, 1970 in Herzliya , Israel ; Hebrew יגאל עמיר) murdered the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin on November 4, 1995 in Tel Aviv . Amir was then studying law at the religious Bar Ilan University .

Life

Amir was born in Herzliya to a Yemeni Orthodox Jewish family. He attended an ultra-Orthodox school and yeshiva, and served in the Golani Brigade while serving in the Israel Defense Forces . As a law and computer science student at Bar Ilan University, he was involved in organizing demonstrations against the Oslo Accords .

For him, the Oslo Accords were a betrayal of the Jewish people and a threat to the very existence of the State of Israel , which led to his decision to assassinate Rabin. His brother Hagai and friend Dror Adani were accomplices in this venture. Amir had planned to assassinate Rabin twice in 1995, but abandoned the attempts shortly before they were carried out.

Jigal Amir is said to have been reported about his attitude towards Prime Minister Rabin through the deliberations. B. with Rabbi Schlomo Aviner , his last rabbinical interlocutor, have been influenced.

“Aviner asked him whether the death sentence of the traitor (Din Rodef u-Moser) should be applied to Rabin, in no uncertain terms with 'Yes!' answered. Aviner's only restriction, taking into account his 'important position as a spiritual mastermind of the national-religious awakening', as Chief Rabbi of Beth-El and head of the yeshiva to the Atheret Kohanim, was: '... but I cannot enforce this judgment'. "

- dg / haGalil onLine 31-10-2001

The attack and the consequences

On November 4, 1995, after a demonstration in support of the peace process on the “Square of the Kings of Israel” ( Kikar Malchei Jisra'el כיכר מלכי ישראל, today Kikar Rabin כיכר רבין, “Rabin Square”), Amir was waiting for Rabin for one adjacent parking lot, where he murdered him with two shots from his pistol. With another shot, Amir injured a bodyguard of Rabin.

For the attack he used a semi-automatic pistol, type Beretta 84F, caliber .380 ACP. The three fired bullets had been given a steel casing by Jigal's brother to cause as much damage as possible.

Amir was arrested on the scene of the crime. On March 27, 1996, the Tel Aviv District Court sentenced him to life imprisonment for the murder and a further six years in prison for shooting the guard. In a later trial he was also sentenced to an initial five years imprisonment for forming a conspiracy to carry out the murder with his brother and Adani, and to eight years after a state appeal. All penalties have been added up.

24 hours after the first court ruling, the Shamgar Commission , named after its head Meir Shamgar , former President of the Supreme Court, published its 250-page investigation report into Rabin's murder. Of these, 117 pages were not allowed to be published.

In November 1997 the Israeli government published supplementary information from the secret part of the report of the commission of inquiry in a six-page paper. The full text of the report has not yet been published, although Meir Shamgar himself said two years after the murder of Prime Minister Rabin that the government was now allowed to publish the confidential parts of his commission's report.

Amir was in solitary confinement in Beersheba Prison and was transferred to Ayalon Prison in 2003 - also in solitary confinement. His appeals against both sentences were denied.

Amir never expressed regrets for what he did.

Most right-wing supporters condemned the assassination, despite the significant differences in political views and widespread dislike of Rabin's policies, which the right believed to fuel anti-Israel terrorism. A poll published in 2006 found that around 30 percent of Israelis would support a pardon for Amir.

Engagement and marriage in custody

In 2004, the Tel Aviv District Court discussed the decision on a request from Jigal Amir to marry in prison. He was engaged to Larissa Trembowler, an immigrant from Russia, doctor of philosophy and divorced mother of four. He had probably met her on an earlier trip to Russia. In January 2004, the administration of Israeli prisons announced that Amir would not be allowed to marry, despite a law that allows all inmates to marry and have children. In February 2006, however, the Israeli attorney general recognized the couple's marriage over the phone.

In March 2006 it was announced that prison authorities and prosecutors have approved a request of the couple, according to which Amir's wife outside prison with Amir's sperm artificially inseminated can. The two were initially denied sexual intercourse.

The couple has since had a son whose circumcision took place on November 4, 2007, on the anniversary of the attack.

Telephone interviews in prison

According to news agency reports, secret telephone interviews with the imprisoned murderer of Yitzchak Rabin on October 31, 2008, sparked criticism from across the political spectrum in Israel. Two private television stations had telephoned the killer without first informing the prison. Defense Minister Ehud Barak commented on this with the words: "Amir should 'under no circumstances' take part in the public discussion, but rather perish in prison for the rest of his life." The head of the National Religious Party , Sevulun Orlev, accused the stations of ostracizing To sacrifice Amir to the “golden calf of the ratings”. The full interview was broadcast by one of the broadcasters at the beginning of the Sabbath on Friday evening.

literature

  • Michael Karpin, Ina Friedman: The Death of Yitzhak Rabin. Anatomy of a conspiracy . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-498-03496-0 .

documentary

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dg: Neither forgotten - nor forgiven: Rabín's legacy . haGalil onLine, October 31, 2001.
  2. ↑ This week in Haaretz 1996: Rabin's assassin gets life in prison , Haaretz, March 31, 2011, accessed December 22, 2013.
  3. ↑ The murder plan was known in advance . In: taz , November 14, 1997.
  4. ↑ israelnationalnews.com
  5. ↑ jewishsf.com
  6. ↑ ynetnews.com
  7. ^ National Film Center of Latvia: Beyond the Fear. Retrieved July 14, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Hans-Christian Rössler: Shimon Peres says: Abominable! : In: FAZ of July 11, 2015, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Amir, Jigal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish fundamentalist student and assassin on Yitzhak Rabin
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Herzliya , Israel