Wednesday, October 28, 2015

2015-10-28 ISRAEL: 20th anniversary of PM Rabin's assassination...

2015-10-28 ISRAEL: 20th anniversary of PM Rabin's assassination...
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Pics: Assassinated PM Rabin, Current PM Netanyahu in a 1994 demonstration against Rabin with a noose and a coffin.
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* Carmiel mayor said in the official local ceremony: Those behind the assassination rule us now.
* The Rabin family asked PM Netanyahu, who is largely seen as a key figure behind the incitement for the assassination, not to conduct a memorial in the PM's office, and he obliged.
* President Rivlin stated he wouldn't pardon the assassin. In response, he received an avalanche of threats, including one from the assassin's brother.
* Principle of an orthodox school (the assassin was an orthodox-national political background) decided to hold discussion of domestic violence instead of the standard educational program marking the anniversary.
* IDF cadet was demoted for justifying the assassination.
* Over the past year, the senior Israel Police commander, Ephraim Bracha, who was in charge of the assassination investigation committed suicide after numerous press reports of his corruption.
* Former Tel-Aviv District Attorney, who was in charge of the assassination investigation on behalf of the Attorney General is on trial for corruption.
* Poll shows that majority of the orthodox-national public doesn't believe that he assassin killed PM Rabin (the most common open question pertains to collusion of the Shin-Bet in the assassination).
* Previous polls showed that large part of the adult population does not trust the official assassination investigation results.

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