Fact check
Is it true: Yitzhak Rabin assassination (Nov 4 1995, Tel Aviv)?
Yes — this is confirmed.
Yigal Amir confessed to and was convicted of the murder in March 1996. His brother and an associate were also convicted. The Shamgar Commission (1996) documented serious Shabak protective-service failures. Shabak agent Avishai Raviv ('Champion') operated in Amir's milieu as an agent-provocateur and was acquitted of failure-to-prevent charges in 2003. No forensic basis for a second-gunman claim has been established.
The claim
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was shot by Yigal Amir on 4 November 1995 at Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv, immediately after a peace rally. Amir, a 25-year-old religious-nationalist law stu
Key evidence
Shamgar Commission documented serious Shabak protective-service failures
Amir confessed and was convicted of murder, March 1996
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