Yigal Amir (23 May 1970-) was a Jewish activist who assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel in 1995 in response to his signing of the Oslo Accords with Palestine.
Biography[]
Yigal Amir was born on 23 May 1970 in Herzliya, Israel to a family of Yemenite Jews, and he served in a religious platoon of the Golani Brigade. Despit being in a religious unit, even his comrades considered him to be a fanatic. On 4 November 1995, Amir shot Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin twice with a Beretta Cheetah handgun in response to Rabin agreeing to make peace with Palestine two years earlier in the Oslo Accords. He expressed no regret for his actions, and he was sentenced to life in prison.