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Former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassin Yigal Amir. (Archives) del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 18:15 01/11/2007 Rabin killer to circumcise son in jail on anniversary of assassination By Ofra Idelman, Haaretz Correspondent and The Associated Press tags: Yitzhak Rabin, Israel  The assassin of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, Yigal Amir, will hold a circumcision ceremony for his newborn son in prison, on the 12th anniversary of the assassination. The Tel Aviv District Court on Thursday rejected Amir's request jail to attend the circumcision ceremony, but said the ceremony could take place in the prison where he is held, a court spokeswoman said. Yigal Amir, an ultra-nationalist Jew, shot Rabin to death after a peace rally on November 4, 1995, because he opposed the prime minister's policy of ceding West Bank land to the Palestinians. He was sentenced to life in prison. Advertisement Although he is held in isolation, Amir has been permitted conjugal visits over the past year with his wife, Larissa Trimbobler, whom he married while in prison. The boy was born on Sunday, and according to Jewish tradition, a healthy Jewish male is circumcised eight days after his birth. Circumcision is a major event in a Jewish boy's life, and Amir - who in the past 12 years has left prison only to appear in court - asked for dispensation to attend the ceremony. A Tel Aviv judge ruled that while some convicted murderers are allowed furlough to attend the circumcision of their sons, the extraordinary gravity of Amir's crime made him ineligible. But he overrode the Israel Prison Service's opposition to allowing the ceremony to take place in the jail in central Israel where he is held, saying there was no legal basis to prevent Amir from holding the ceremony. The court ruled further that Amir must not be allowed to leave the prison as he poses a real and immediate threat to the security of the state, to the public and to himself. The newborn boy, whose name won't be disclosed until the circumcision, was born at a time of growing sympathy for commuting Amir's sentence. Israeli extremists and Amir's family have launched a campaign to have him released from prison. Stickers, posters and 150,000 copies of a video featuring his mother, wife and supporters vowing to free him by next spring have been circulated. The pro-clemency movement has support beyond Israel's fringe. A recent newspaper poll indicated about a quarter of Israelis, including almost half of religiously observant Jews, think Amir should be pardoned in 2015 after serving 20 years. Clemency is the prerogative of the president. President Shimon Peres, who was Rabin's foreign minister and just a few steps away when Rabin was gunned down, has said Amir shouldn't be pardoned. Many other prominent Israelis also have condemned the pro-Amir movement, and Rabin's daughter said Amir should have been executed. Related articles: Prisons Service refuses to allow Yigal Amir to attend son's circumcision Wife of jailed Rabin assassin Yigal Amir gives birth to son Rightists to launch campaign to free Rabin assassin Yigal Amir It's Judeo-Fascism Month in Israel Bookmark to del.icio.us Ellen takes J'lem Liberian President Johnson-Sirleaf to pay Israel a rare visit by an African leader. Greener gas Israeli entrepreneurs launch a network of charging stations for electrical cars.   1.   That is F`d up 17:43  |  POP 01/11/07   2.   The child should be removed under child abuse 18:16  |  Linda Baharier 01/11/07   3.   Allowing genital mutilation 18:35  |  Paul Wood 01/11/07   4.   Poor Baby 18:47  |  Max Molenaar 01/11/07   5.   Paul Wood 18:58  |  Max Molenaar 01/11/07   6.   Hope the baby turns out to be a good person 19:05  |  Ajay 01/11/07   7.   Peres had a son? 19:10  |  Kerwood Derby 01/11/07   8.   Max Molenaar 19:16  |  Paul Wood 01/11/07   9.   Comment #3 19:24  |  Kindred 01/11/07   10.   No. 3 Paul Wood 19:25  |  Steve 01/11/07   11.   Shameful 19:27  |  Steve Beikirch 01/11/07   12.   What chance does the kid have? 19:43  |  GSW 01/11/07   13.   poor kid 19:48  |  a mom 01/11/07   14.   shame on us 19:56  |  PG 01/11/07   15.   To Paul Wood...aint nothing wrong with choppin` the Wood 20:02  |  Kusamek 01/11/07   16.   Best wishes for the child and contempt for Wood&Co trying 20:02  |  Absolute Sweden 01/11/07   17.   #9 Genital mutilation is usually illegal 20:41  |  Boycott 01/11/07   18.   But why so easy on Baghrouti? 20:41  |  Ilan 01/11/07   19.   Baby Amir 20:56  |  Rabbi Yakov Lazaros 01/11/07   20.   Circumcision....from the middle-ages 21:03  |  Bjorn 01/11/07   21.   Genital Mutilation allowed under Israeli Law by jailed assassin 21:12  |  POP 01/11/07   22.   sign of the times!!!!!!!! 21:15  |  sam el llanito 01/11/07   23.   Answer to #5 21:23  |  Moshe 01/11/07   24.   Since when do Jews keep the Yarzeit on Gregorian date? 21:33  |  Sid Emess 01/11/07   25.   The Emperor Hadrian and Antiochus Epiphanes 21:42  |  Avi Yerushalmi 01/11/07   26.   The Tel Aviv Judge Ruling as reported by Haaretz 21:48  |  Joseph E . 01/11/07   27.   Zionist freak show 21:48  |  Clickfool 01/11/07   28.   "Rabin killer to circumcise son in jail" 22:02  |  Clickfool 01/11/07   29.   Haaretz celebrates the circle of life.... 22:03  |  Joseph B. 01/11/07   30.   Save this Child by removing him from this "MOB" 22:10  |  Alastair 01/11/07   31.   Boycott 22:12  |  Jake 01/11/07   32.   freeing Amir? 22:24  |  eddie 01/11/07   33.   Ilan on Marwan 22:24  |  Omar 01/11/07   34.   Dad is a murderer 22:38  |  Gary 01/11/07   35.   Circumcision ceremony to celebrate the anniversary... 22:40  |  Maureen Ann 01/11/07   36.   never should have been allowed not even conjugal visits. solitary 22:41  |  ralph 01/11/07   37.   # 15 Kusamek and # 16 Absolute Sweden , RE: P.Wood 22:45  |  Joseph E . 01/11/07   38.   rights of a murderer 22:45  |  frank 01/11/07   39.   Haaretz labels half the country, `extremists` 23:04  |  Paul 01/11/07   40.   circumcision is not the issue 23:19  |  rose 01/11/07   41.   #31 Jake 23:33  |  Boycott 01/11/07   42.   Circumcision 23:49  |  Casher 01/11/07   43.   Paul Wood 00:31  |  Empresaria 02/11/07   44.   This is Idiotic ! 00:44  |  MIKE 02/11/07   45.   Rabin killer 01:53  |  avrumiye 02/11/07   46.   To a woman a circumcised man is a HEALTHIER choice! 02:13  |  Alicia 02/11/07   47.   IF Hashem blesses Yigal with a baby, He´ll watch over his son! 02:23  |  Alicia 02/11/07   48.   Od Avinu Hai! 02:30  |  Rabin`s Ghost 02/11/07   49.   To all the anti-Jews: Arab-boys are circumcised TOO! 02:40  |  Alicia 02/11/07   50.   #17 etc 02:58  |  bob 02/11/07   51.   # 39 Paul @ LA 02:59  |  Joseph E . 02/11/07   52.   #43 what qualifications does the murderer 03:00  |  Paul Wood 02/11/07   53.   If he wants to disfigure his son 03:08  |  Chris Linthwaite 02/11/07   54.   Bizarre Standards 03:16  |  Yoram 02/11/07   55.   POP - The father isnt doing the circumcision! 03:25  |  Dakkar 02/11/07   56.   Clickfool - you are such a fool!!! 03:31  |  Dakkar 02/11/07   57.   Furthermore, Clickfool 03:33  |  Dakkar 02/11/07   58.   to the idiots condemning circumcision 04:00  |  roye 02/11/07   59.   great headline...let`s hope for more! 04:50  |  Joseph B. 02/11/07   60.   #36, Ralph, I agree with you... 04:54  |  Silvienne 02/11/07   61.   #2, Linda Baharier... 04:57  |  Silvienne 02/11/07   62.   but who was the killer? 05:11  |  sammy 02/11/07   63.   killer`s anniversary 05:31  |  Jake 02/11/07   64.   Boycott 05:41  |  Jake 02/11/07   65.   # 35 Maureen Ann @ Bathurst 06:00  |  Joseph E . 02/11/07   66.   Omar: Baghrouti is more than 5 times worse 07:11  |  Ilan 02/11/07   67.   #61 - Silvienne 11:19  |  Kobi 02/11/07   68.   #35 Maureen 11:23  |  Kobi 02/11/07   69.   Well said Dakkar 55-6-7 15:59  |  Cyasher 02/11/07   70.   #67, Kobi... 18:47  |  Silveinne 02/11/07   71.   This assassin should not have conceived a baby at all, he is a 00:29  |  Benjamina 03/11/07

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