Yigal Amir
| Yigal Amir יגאל עמיר |
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| Born |
May 23, 1970 Herzliya, Israel |
| Occupation | Law student |
| Criminal charge | Assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin |
| Criminal penalty | Life + 14 years |
| Criminal status | Prisoner |
| Spouse(s) | Larisa Trembovler |
| Children | Yinon Amir |
| Parent(s) | Shlomo and Geula Amir |
| Conviction(s) | Murder, conspiracy to murder, and aggravated injury |
Yigal Amir (Hebrew: יגאל עמיר; born May 23, 1970) is an Israeli 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. 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.
Yigal Amir was born in Herzliya to an Israeli Orthodox Yemenite Jewish family, one of eight children. His father, Shlomo, was a sofer, and held a post supervising the kosher slaughtering of chickens. He also taught Shabbat lessons at a local synagogue. His mother, Geula, was a kindergarten teacher and ran a nursery school in family home's backyard. Amir attended a Haredi elementary school in Herzliya and a high school yeshiva in Tel Aviv. He did his military service in the Israel Defense Forces as a Hesder student, combining army service in a religious platoon of the Golani Brigade with religious study at Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh. Despite being in a religious unit, even his comrades considered him a religious fanatic.
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