Jerusalem
Israelis erupted in protest this week over a report that the man who assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin planned to get married in prison. Yigal Amir shot Rabin at a peace rally in 1995, claiming that Rabin had betrayed Israel by ceding territory to the Palestinians. Amir’s fiancée, an ultra-Orthodox Russian immigrant, has been writing and visiting Amir for nearly two years and says she shares his ideological views. Members of the Israeli parliament on both the left and the right were outraged at the idea that Amir, who is serving a life sentence and has expressed no remorse, might find nuptial happiness. Several members are backing legislation to forbid such prisoners from marrying.
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