Almost exactly 29 years ago – on November 4, 1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a far-Right nationalist vehemently opposed to Rabin’s efforts to make peace with the Palestinians.
The killer, Yigal Amir, was reportedly carrying a Hebrew edition of The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 novel in which a professional hitman is hired to eliminate French president Charles de Gaulle.
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