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Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin, Yigal Amir, celebrates son’s circumcision

[Times - World]

The murderer of Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister who forged the Oslo peace accords with the Palestinians, attended the circumcision of his son yestrday in a high-security jail, on the 12th anniversary of Rabin’s assassination. Yigal Amir, an Orthodox Jew, who shot three bullets into the prime minister’s back as he left a peace rally in 1995, was led in shackles to attend the circumcision of his newborn son, despite the protestations of many Israelis, including Rabin’s son.