Petah Tikva – Rabin’s killer Rejects Offer to Study Torah with Other Prisoner

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    ** FILE ** In this file photo dated Nov. 1, 2007, Yigal Amir, the convicted assassin of late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, is seen during a court hearing in Tel Aviv, Israel. Amir fatally shot Rabin at the end of a peace rally in Tel Aviv on Nov. 4, 1995. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)Petah Tikva – Yigal Amir, who is serving a life sentence for assassinating former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, rejected on Sunday an offer from the State Prosecution that would allow him to hold a one hour bi-weekly torah study session with one fellow prisoner.

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    “The offer disrespects the High Court’s decision,” Amir’s attorney Ariel Atari wrote to the Petah Tikva District Court, claiming that the offer to ease Amir’s confinement was unsatisfactory.

    In December, the High Court of Justice rejected Amir’s appeal to alter the terms of his imprisonment. The court ruled that he is to be held in solitary confinement for an additional six months. However, the justices wrote that they might consider allowing Amir to spend limited time with other prisoners, under supervision, for purposes such as a prayer quorum.

    About a month later, the Petah Tikva District Court asked the State Prosecution to look into easing the conditions of Amir’s detention – he has been serving his sentence in isolation for over 15 years. Around that time the abovementioned proposal was submitted to Atari, Amir’s attorney.

    “There is no doubt that this position reflects the attitude of the Shin Bet in general and of the Prison Service especially, that the court is at their service – otherwise it is impossible to understand their contempt towards the High Court conveyed by this proposal,” Atari said.

    Moreover, Atari claimed that the State Prosecution is disregarding the High Court’s suggestion to allow Amir to pray as part of a quorum under supervision.

    “There is no doubt that the prosecution wishes to drag out the High Court’s decision, and attempts to draw the court into some kind of negotiations, starting at the opening point, as though the High Court did not speak out,” he said.

    Atari noted that the prayer quorum is not just a social gathering, but is a basic right that Amir deserves – the freedom of worship.

    “Of course, there is nothing to stop a prison service official from joining the quorum as a 10th man, enjoying Amir’s poetry and hearing all his thoughts and conversations with the rest of the worshipers and with his God,” Amir’s attorney noted cynically. “If he finds any faults, he can report them to the court immediately.”


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    Liepa
    Liepa
    13 years ago

    The Israeli leftists fascist system in play here.

    Zahav36
    Zahav36
    13 years ago

    Too bad Israel doesn’t have a death penalty. Whatever he thinks of his jail conditions, he’s having more fun right now than Yitzhak Rabin.

    berelw
    berelw
    13 years ago

    He killed another human being, another Jew in cold blood, i dont want to be his judge, but before comment #1 you curse the leftist gov. realize what he did. I dont care if someone disagrees with somones politics but to take a life is wrong and against the torah the aseres hadibroas. perhpas after 15yrs they should realease him he if he realizes is wrong and rectifies.

    Yaakov2
    Yaakov2
    13 years ago

    Al Pi Halacha:

    Haba Lehorgach? The Halacha is:

    Hashkem vehargehu!

    Anyone giving away land to those who Kill Jews every day is helping and directly giving them a hand for them to do more and more Killing of Jews.

    Anyone who keeps on helping the Killing of Jews, deserves the Death Penalty and so Rabin had deserved the Death Penalty and this Yid had the ZCHUS to save the rest of Israel from being brought closer to be killed with Rabins ongoing actions of giving away land of Israel to those who want it so that it will be easier for them to Kill more Jews.

    Even the Goyim understand this concept as the president of the USA had said that the US will make no distinction between the Terrorists themselves and those who harbor them and help them and protect them and finance them, such as Rabin who helped Terrorists Kill Jews with his giving away land to these Arab Murderers.

    13 years ago

    There doesn’t appear to be any change in Amir’s weltanschauung. He shows no remorse for killing Rabin, and undoubtedly still maintains that he did it “l’Shaym Mitzvoh.” He’s already getting conjugal visits from his wife, who is raising their son that he fathered during one of those visits essentially on her own. Evidently, the overall conditions of his incarceration haven’t pushed him to do t’shuvah. Let him rot until he does….

    shnitzel
    shnitzel
    13 years ago

    Amir didn’t do it. He was framed.

    Why-Ask-Why
    Why-Ask-Why
    13 years ago

    What does Amar say about this? Is this Mutaaaar? Is it mutaaar to steal, lie, cheat & kill? What do the concert ban rabbis say about this?