Hagai Amir ( he, חגי עמיר; born 1968) is the brother and accomplice of

Yigal Amir Yigal Amir ( he, יגאל עמיר; born May 31, 1970) is an Israeli right-wing extremist who assassinated former Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin. At the time of the assassination he was a law student at Bar-Ilan University. The assas ...

, the

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Yitzhak Rabin Yitzhak Rabin (; he, יִצְחָק רַבִּין, ; 1 March 1922 – 4 November 1995) was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77, and from 1992 until h ...

Biography

Hagai Amir was convicted for

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Yitzhak Rabin and planning attacks against

Palestinians Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

, as well as for various weapons charges. On 27 April 2006, he was convicted for threatening to have then-Israeli Prime Minister

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killed. Following a trial before the

Netanya Netanya (also known as Natanya, he, נְתַנְיָה) is a city in the Northern Central District of Israel, and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain. It is north of Tel Aviv, and south of Haifa, between Poleg stream and Wingate I ...

Magistrates' Court, he was sentenced to a year in prison, of which half a year was to be added to his current prison term. Hagai served his sentence at Ayalon Prison in

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. On 4 May 2012, he was released from prison. Since his release from prison, Hagai has been living with his parents, while studying engineering and running his own welding company.

References

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