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Larisa Trimbombler, wife of Yitzhak Rabin's assassin, Yigal Amir. (Tomer Appelbaum / BauBau)
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Rabin assassin's wife: Yigal Amir sacrificed himself for his people
By Haaretz Service

The pregnant wife of Yigal Amir, the jailed assassin of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, said Monday that she intended to tell Amir's future child that his father had "sacrificed himself for his people."

Larisa Trimbobler is in the last stages of pregnancy and is expected to give birth within the next few days. The Israel Prisons Service, noting that Amir is a security prisoner, announced Monday that it would deny Amir's requests that he be allowed to leave prison to attend the circumcision ceremony of his expected son, or be allowed to hold the ceremony within Rimonim prison, were he is currently incarcerated.

Amir, who strongly opposed the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, gunned down the then-prime minister after a Tel Aviv peace rally on November 4, 1995.
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Coinciding with the anniversary and with the immiment birth, Israeli ultra-nationalists launched a campaign this week in an attempt to win Amir's release from prison.

Trimbobler, speaking on Army Radio, noted that the gender of the fetus was a matter of medical confidentiality and said the controversy over a possible circumcision was manufactured by a hostile media.

Asked if she would tell the future child that her father was a murderer, she replied, "I will tell him that his father sacrificed himself for the sake of his people."

Trimbobler said the campaign to free Amir, which included a promotional film excerpts of which were widely broadcast on news programs, "proves that people are already no longer afraid" of advocating his release.

She said that for the 12 years since the assassination, Israelis had been subject to a government "brainwashing" campaign "the likes of which are familiar to people from the [former] Soviet Union."

"I am happy that people have gotten up their courage and come out against the brainwashing, and the attempt to rewrite history in the manner of [George] Orwell's '1984. There is an entire generation that has grown up in schools and has been educated with lies."

She declined to elaborate, saying that the assassination was taught bereft of its historical context.

For years, Amir battled for his right to marry and have children. He eventually married Trimbobler by proxy after IPS, backed by Attorney General Menachem Mazuz, forbade the ceremony from being held in prison.

Trimbobler was granted a conjugal visit last year, after Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin ruled that this did not pose a security risk.

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  1.   What we have come to ...... 10:59  |  Esther 22/10/07
  2.   Meir Moses 11:01  |  Sacrificed HIMSELF? 22/10/07
  3.   Esther #1 11:07  |  Boris 22/10/07
  4.   God, she looks quite pretty..... 11:16  |  Swiss (Dino) 22/10/07
  5.   It is a delusion found more in religious nutcases 11:16  |  John 22/10/07
  6.   Let`s keep him in the sacrificed state until he decomposes 11:19  |  Ehud 22/10/07
  7.   Larissa Trembovler 11:21  |  Boris 22/10/07
  8.   Let`s just hope... 11:22  |  JonathanInTelAviv 22/10/07
  9.   And this in a country ... 11:23  |  Axel 22/10/07
  10.   he is a tzadik and G-D shall surely release him 11:25  |  Dr Levy 22/10/07
  11.   May the Privilege Continue 11:34  |  Jay A Friedman 22/10/07
  12.   YIGAL AMIR IS A CRIMINAL FOR BOTH PEOPLE 11:37  |  indrajaya 22/10/07
  13.   Larissa and Yigal Amir Are Creatures Of the SHABAK 11:41  |  Ben Israel 22/10/07
  14.   May Amir be released soon and the true killers of Rabin named! 11:42  |  Miriam 22/10/07
  15.   Rabin Assassin`s wife 11:47  |  Strangelove 22/10/07
  16.   Disgusted by a "so called sacrfice" 11:47  |  Ro 22/10/07
  17.   Rabin was Israel`s Neville Chamberlain 11:50  |  Dudu 22/10/07
  18.   No Danger of Release 11:56  |  geoff 22/10/07
  19.   Well said, Ben Israel.... 11:57  |  Esther 22/10/07
  20.   Levy is as deranged and as criminal as Amir! 12:03  |  Strangelove 22/10/07
  21.   An Anathma 12:10  |  ATLAS 22/10/07
  22.   How many deaths has Amir caused&how many deaths has Rabin caused? 12:17  |  Tamar 22/10/07
  23.   How many people have died because of the monster Yigal Amir ? 12:34  |  Clickfool 22/10/07
  24.   She sounds as mad as Amir.No publicity for them please 12:51  |  PETER S.M. 22/10/07
  25.   CFOOL Mare you talking about the Arab leaders who refused peace? 12:56  |  PETER S.M. 22/10/07
  26.   Oh dear shes really lost the plot 13:08  |  SJ 22/10/07
  27.   Have we released him yet???? 13:09  |  Ronnie Wolman 22/10/07
  28.   sacrifice?!? 13:14  |  David 22/10/07
  29.   esther of Tel Aviv 13:18  |  GABE1 22/10/07
  30.   to Dr. Levy 13:19  |  David 22/10/07
  31.   Boris: Mrs Amir or Trembovler? 13:20  |  sh 22/10/07
  32.   throw away the key 13:27  |  ky 22/10/07
  33.   To be honest, it is still amazing to learn that Amir..... 13:31  |  Swiss (Dino) 22/10/07
  34.   Measure for measure 13:32  |  Choni Davidowitz 22/10/07
  35.   He sacrificed Rabin, not himself 13:36  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 22/10/07
  36.   Let`s not diminish the "sacrifce" 13:37  |  Leon 22/10/07
  37.   Rabin`s Assassin 13:41  |  Edward 22/10/07
  38.   Let`s REALLY Sacrifice Amir... 13:43  |  dyinglikeflies 22/10/07
  39.   dangerous animals must remain in cages 13:47  |  don 22/10/07
  40.   # 13, SWISS (DINO) 13:58  |  indrajaya 22/10/07
  41.   NOW I UNDERSTAND WHY TERRORISTS ATTACK ISRAEL. IT IS YUVAL DISKIN 14:03  |  NAHARIA 22/10/07
  42.   Yigal Amir sacrificed himself for his people ? 14:13  |  Natallie Durson 22/10/07
  43.   The Devil 14:15  |  Ethan 22/10/07
  44.   on Rabin assassins 14:30  |  dani.a 22/10/07
  45.   #10 14:40  |  !!!! 22/10/07
  46.   # 44, DANI.A 14:41  |  indrajaya 22/10/07
  47.   # 40 indrajaya 15:02  |  Swiss (Dino) 22/10/07
  48.   Israel should reverse the trend, and end the rule of G-D 15:07  |  Truth on Earth 22/10/07
  49.   misguided vigilante or cold blooded murderer? 15:35  |  zionist forever 22/10/07
  50.   And Sirhan Sirhan and Lee Harvey Oswald were greate.... 15:41  |  Ofer 22/10/07
  51.   And how, exactly, did this benefit ANYONE? 15:55  |  Polybios 22/10/07
  52.   Censorship makes discussion futile 16:20  |  Rowan Berkeley 22/10/07
  53.   Rabin was a sh.. hailing Arafat as a "peace partner" 16:35  |  Absolute Sweden 22/10/07
  54.   Yeah Right! Another Marina Oswald! 17:03  |  Yosemite 22/10/07
  55.   Absolute (Sweden) idiot! 17:26  |  Wiktor 22/10/07
  56.   Cops Killed Rabin 18:14  |  dave 22/10/07
  57.   For Peter SM # 25 19:23  |  Clickfool 22/10/07
  58.   Rowan Berkeley #52, who writes and then runs away 20:06  |  S 22/10/07
  59.   Trimbobler`s distorted vision 00:02  |  Mike 23/10/07
  60.   No rights for Yigal Amir 00:06  |  Shlomo 23/10/07
  61.   Absolute Sweden 01:40  |  Jeff 23/10/07
  62.   yigal son? 03:15  |  alexy 23/10/07
  63.   Many in Israel think like her 03:47  |  Mordechai 23/10/07
  64.   wrong he was a murder who deserves to rot for ever 04:52  |  ralph 23/10/07
  65.   AMIR IS A SECRET POLICE AGENT,HE COVERED UP THE ASSASSINATION 05:42  |  VOICE))))))) 23/10/07
  66.   In the USA he`d hang 05:50  |  Steve V 23/10/07
  67.   RABBIS WHO CALLED RABIN RODEF (PURSUER) DID NOT PERMIT KILLING HI 05:51  |  VOICE))))))) 23/10/07
  68.   Conjugal visits? Ridiculous. 07:04  |  Tim 23/10/07
  69.   Amir/Trimbomblern (`Rosemary`s baby") 07:20  |  Mel McManus 23/10/07
  70.   #14 Miriam 09:05  |  Michael 23/10/07
  71.   outrageous 09:38  |  dezon 23/10/07
  72.   Deadly Wife 10:49  |  Joshua 23/10/07
  73.   Cllickfool`s bad Air 10:53  |  Joshua 23/10/07
  74.   Dino(saur) #33 10:55  |  Joshua 23/10/07
  75.   Way to go Sweden, for agitating Wiktor! 10:58  |  Joshua 23/10/07
  76.   Jeff,Petain also fought with distinction(in WW1) 11:17  |  Absolute Sweden 23/10/07
  77.   Rosemary`s child / Jesus / Hary Potter 11:32  |  Vitaly 23/10/07
  78.   in other words, yigal amir is a shaheed 11:40  |  matt 23/10/07
  79.   sick woman will raise another killer - deport them both! 11:41  |  Michelle 23/10/07
  80.   At least save the child 12:48  |  Linda Baharier 23/10/07
  81.   Haaretz description wrong 12:53  |  Anti-Ter