Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin | |
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Location | Tel Aviv, Israel |
Coordinates | 32°04′54.8″N 34°46′51.4″E / 32.081889°N 34.780944°E |
Date | November 4, 1995 9:30 p.m. (IST) |
Target | Yitzhak Rabin |
Attack type | Shooting |
Weapons | Beretta 84F semi-automatic pistol |
Deaths | Yitzhak Rabin |
Injured | Yoram Rubin |
Perpetrator | Yigal Amir |
Motive | Rabin signing the Oslo Accords |
Convictions | Murder, conspiracy to commit murder, aggravated injury |
Sentence | Life imprisonment, plus 14 years |
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the fifth prime minister of Israel, took place on 4 November 1995 (12 Marcheshvan 5756 on the Hebrew calendar) at 21:30, at the end of a rally in support of the Oslo Accords at the Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv. The assailant was Yigal Amir, an Israeli law student and ultranationalist who radically opposed prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's peace initiative, particularly the signing of the Oslo Accords.