assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
	Site of the rally before the assassination: Kings of Israel Square (later renamed Rabin Square) with Tel Aviv City Hall in the background.
Location	Tel Aviv, Israel
Coordinates	32°04′54.8″N 34°46′51.4″E / 32.081889°N 34.780944°E / 32.081889; 34.780944
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.

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