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Yigal Amir

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Yigal Amir (born May 31, 1970) is an Israeli right-wing extremist who assassinated the incumbent prime minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, on November 4, 1995, at the conclusion of a rally in Tel Aviv, Israel. At the time of the murder, he was a law student at Bar-Ilan University. Amir is serving a life sentence for murder plus six years for injuring Rabin's bodyguard. Numerous radical right-wing Israeli organisations have carried out campaigns for Amir's release. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2024). Yigal Amir is the 188th most popular extremist (down from 113th in 2024), the 221st most popular biography from Israel (down from 183rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Israeli Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Yigal Amir ranks 188 out of 283. Before him are Perkin Warbeck, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, Louis Farrakhan, Tsutomu Miyazaki, Dean Corll, and Radislav Krstić. After him are Béla Kiss, Jan-Carl Raspe, Aslan Usoyan, Guy Burgess, Belle Gunness, and Herbert Mullin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Yigal Amir ranks 93. Before him are Tonya Harding, Paul Thomas Anderson, Heather Graham, Leonid Pasechnik, Angelo Peruzzi, and Clifton Collins Jr.. After him are Hunter Biden, Kim Hye-soo, Anna Gavalda, Queen Latifah, Moacir Rodrigues Santos, and Elizabeth Mitchell.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Yigal Amir ranks 221 out of 466. Before him are Gabi Ashkenazi (1954), Yakir Aharonov (1932), Suha Arafat (1963), Avi Arad (1948), Azmi Bishara (1956), and Hillel Slovak (1962). After him are Avraham Adan (1926), Mordechai Gur (1930), Itamar Ben-Gvir (1976), Moshe Safdie (1938), Tom Segev (1945), and Dan Shomron (1937).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Israel

Among extremists born in Israel, Yigal Amir ranks 5. Before him are George Habash (1926), Abu Nidal (1937), Wadie Haddad (1927), and Sirhan Sirhan (1944).

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