AMIR, YIGAL

Specialty Definition: Yigal Amir

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Yigal Amir is the Jewish fundamentalist student at Bar-Ilan University who shot and killed Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on Nov 4, 1995 at a peace rally in Tel Aviv. Amir strenuously opposed Rabin's signing of the Oslo Accords.
The gun used by Amir was a Beretta 84F semi-automatic pistol in .380 ACP caliber, serial number D98231Y.
Amir was sentenced to life imprisonment.
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