Yitzhak Rabin assassination conspiracy theories arose almost immediately following the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister, on November 4, 1995. The gunman Yigal Amir, a Jewish Israeli student, was apprehended within seconds by other people in the crowd. Yitzhak Rabin died later on the operating table of Ichilov Hospital. Yigal Amir confessed to the murder of Yitzhak Rabin. Site of the rally before the assassination: Rabin Square and Tel Aviv City Hall during the day. ... ▶ (help· info) (or Yitschak Rabin) (or Yitzchak Rabin) (יצחק רבין in Hebrew), (March 1, 1922 – November 4, 1995) was an Israeli politician and general. ... November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 57 days remaining. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Yigal Amir (Hebrew: יגאל עמיר) (born May 23, 1970) is the Israeli assassin of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. ... Jews (Hebrew: יהודים, Yehudim) are followers of Judaism or, more generally, members of the Jewish people (also known as the Jewish nation, or the Children of Israel), an ethno-religious group descended from the ancient Israelites and converts who joined their religion. ... Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center is the main hospital in the city of Tel Aviv, Israel. ...

The matter was clear cut, has been reported as such in the media, and the Shamgar national inquiry commission and the court all drew the same conclusion that Yigal Amir was guilty of murder. Yet, some inconsistencies in the evidence have been alleged, both in the medical records and in the inquiry testimony. These allegations and other suspicions have been included in occasional left-wing conspiracy theories and more prevalent right-wing conspiracy theories. This proposed logo for the Information Awareness Office (a US governmental agency) was dropped due to fears that its pseudo-Masonic symbolism would provoke conspiracy theories. ...

Right-wing conspiracy theories

Conspiracy theorists Uri Barkan, [Barry Chamish www.barry-chamish.com], Natan Geffen and David Morrison wrote books alleging that Amir's action was on the surface intended to have been a staged, unsuccessful assassination bid to rekindle Rabin's flagging popularity, and was subverted by other factions (variously ascribed to political opponents, or the Israeli Secret Services Shin Bet or Shabak) who added the fatal wounds later. Shabak emblem Defender who shall not be seen The Shabak (in Hebrew, שבכ   Shabak?} an acronym of Sherut ha-Bitachon ha-Klali שירות ביטחון כללי) known abroad as the Shin Bet or the GSS (General Security Service), is the Internal General Security Service of Israel. ... Shabak emblem Defender who shall not be seen The Shabak (in Hebrew, שבכ (help· info)) an acronym of ShérÅ«t ha-BÄ«tāhōn ha-KlālÄ« שירות ביטחון כללי) known in English as the Shin Bet (which was how the Shabak was known in Israel in its early days) or the...

The right-wing conspiracy theories made some or all of the following claims, some of them claimed to be incorrect, others little relevant [1] [2] [3]:

• Police reports state that powder was found on Rabin's body and clothing, suggesting that he had been shot at point blank range (powder travels only inches before dispersing). Amir shot from a range at which no powder traces would have been left.
• Surgical notes describing a bullet wound which penetrated the front of the chest before impacting the spinal cord from inside, inconsistent with the witness reports and video evidence that Rabin was shot in his back while walking away from Yigal Amir.
• Rabin would have walked after Amir's shots in a manner inconsistent with gunshot, an impossibility if they shattered the vertebrae.
• The bullet path for a shot by Amir was implausible
• Each medical record describes wounds which are "completely different" in nature to those concluded by the official Shamgar Commission. Medical descriptions of Rabin's condition are described as suddenly appearing to change.
• The view of Dr Guttman, a physician, that "[t]he first two wounds, to the chest and abdomen occurred before Rabin's arrival. The third, frontal chest wound, had to have been inflicted after he entered the hospital," and that "it is inconceivable that Rabin had no spinal damage. The six members of the operating team were too skilled to have all been wrong about that."
• Anecdotal reports of hospital staff expressing doubts as to the circumstances of that night.
• Amir fired one shot. But trauma from at least two, perhaps three separate shots were reported to his body.
• Three police officers who had been present testified that "when Yitzhak Rabin was placed in the car, he showed no visible wounds." (Gordon Thomas in his book "Gideon's Spies" adds: "The surgeons insisted there was no possible gunshot wound that would have allowed Rabin to leave the attack site showing no evidence of a wound and arrive at the hospital with multiple damage ... subsequently the doctors have refused to discuss the matter.")
• Rabin's car became "lost" for 22 minutes on a 45-second drive to hospital by a highly experienced chauffeur, on clear cordoned-off streets. The distance between the murder site and hospital can be walked in five minutes.
• Police ballistics tests on shell casings found at the scene did not match Amir's gun.
• Powder traces (almost inevitably present if the suspect has shot genuine bullets [not blanks] from a handgun) were not found on Amir's hands, clothing or hair.
• No blood was seen coming from Rabin at the scene, despite wounds to his lung and spleen, nor was any found later at that location. (By contrast witnesses describe blood "gushing" from a chest wound upon arriving at hospital)
• Some witnesses state that someone shouted, "It's nothing ... they're blanks. It's a toy gun." It remains unclear if this was the murderer or someone else, if at all.
• A Shin Bet (secret service) agent testified that "I heard a policeman shout to people to calm down. The shot is a blank."
• Policeman Moshe Ephron stated: "The shots didn't sound natural. If they were real shots, they should have sounded much louder."
• Leah Rabin stated her husband did not stagger and fall after apparently being shot at close range. "He was standing and looking very well." She also said that she was kept from seeing her husband for a full hour and was told by an Israeli security chief that she "should not worry as the whole thing had been staged."
• Amir's comment at a court hearing, "If I tell the truth, the whole system will collapse. I know enough to destroy this country."

According to David Rutstein, one of Barry Chamish's close associates in pushing the idea that Shimon Peres was behind the murder, "the evidence is overwhelming" tying Shimon Peres to the assassination. "We're not talking about questions," Rutstein said. "I say unequivocally that Shimon Peres ordered the murder of Yizhak Rabin." [4] The Kempler video is a film made by Roni Kempler while standing initially nearby the convicted assassin Yigal Amir and later on the roof of the Gan Hair-mall overlooking the scene at the northeast side of the City Hall of Tel Aviv-Yafo before and during the assassination... Shabak emblem Defender who shall not be seen The Shabak (in Hebrew, שבכ   Shabak?} an acronym of Sherut ha-Bitachon ha-Klali שירות ביטחון כללי) known abroad as the Shin Bet or the GSS (General Security Service), is the Internal General Security Service of Israel. ... â–¶ (help· info) (Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן פֶּרֶס without Niqqud: שמעון פרס) (born Shimon Perske on August 16, 1923 in Poland, and immigrated with his family to Israel in 1934), is an Israeli politician, who was a member of the Labour Party until December 2005. ...

Leftist conspiracy theory

According to a leftist conspiracy theory, extreme right-wing factors in the Shabak activated Yigal Amir and joined him in a subversive conspiracy to kill Yitzhak Rabin. This theory tries to explain how Yigal Amir easily penetrated the sterile zone in Kings of Israel Square. Historian Michael Harsegor, a professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University, has supported this theory. Shabak emblem Defender who shall not be seen The Shabak (in Hebrew, שבכ (help· info)) an acronym of Shérūt ha-Bītāhōn ha-Klālī שירות ביטחון כללי) known in English as the Shin Bet (which was how the Shabak was known in Israel in its early days) or the... Yigal Amir (Hebrew: יגאל עמיר) (born May 23, 1970) is the Israeli assassin of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. ... Rabin Square and the City Hall Rabin Square (Hebrew: Kikar Rabin, ככר רבין or כיכר רבין, or a longer name - Kikar Yitzhak Rabin, ככר יצחק רבין or כיכר יצחק רבין), formerly known as Kikar Malchey Israel (Israel Kings Square), now named after the late Yitschak Rabin, is a large square in the center of Tel Aviv. ... Central Library from a lawn Tel-Aviv University (TAU, אוניברסיטת תל-אביב) is one of Israels major universities. ...

See also

• Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
• Kempler video

Site of the rally before the assassination: Rabin Square and Tel Aviv City Hall during the day. ... The Kempler video is a film made by Roni Kempler while standing initially nearby the convicted assassin Yigal Amir and later on the roof of the Gan Hair-mall overlooking the scene at the northeast side of the City Hall of Tel Aviv-Yafo before and during the assassination...

Books

• Uri Barkan, Srak, web-publication in Hebrew
• Barry Chamish - "Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?", ISBN 1571290818.

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External links

Articles in press and magazines

• www.barry-chamish.com Barry Chamish's Ties to Neo-Nazis and Holocaust Deniers
• "Israel's Plague of Conspiracism", by Professor Steven Plaut, published in the Jewish Press weekly, January 18, 2006
• "A Mother’s Defense", by Guela Amir, originally published in the absolete George Magazine, March 1997, p. 138
• "The Economics of Conspiracy Theories", by Dr. Sam Vaknin, published by United Press International, April 10, 2002 and the Global Politician, March 20, 2005 [5]
• "10 years after murder, website asks who killed Yitzhak Rabin", by Natalie Prishkolnik in Ynet

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Articles on alternative news sites

• "Rabin Assassination Video Resurfaces After 10 Year Absence" on the Arutz Sheva website
• "Ten years after Rabin’s assassination, the case for conspiracy is reopened" on the DEBKAfile website, November 6, 2005

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Miscellaneous

• ((Hebrew)) Conspiracy website that claims to unravel the murder
• "Treachery at the top?" on the "Gamla Shall Not Fall Again" website