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Yigal Amir

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Yigal Amir (Hebrew: יגאל עמיר; born May 31, 1970) is an Israeli right-wing extremist who assassinated incumbent Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin on November 4, 1995, at the conclusion of a rally in Tel Aviv, Israel. At the time of the murder, he was a law student at Bar-Ilan University. Amir is serving a life sentence for murder plus six years for injuring Rabin's bodyguard. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yigal Amir has received more than 1,525,193 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Yigal Amir is the 112th most popular extremist (up from 171st in 2019), the 183rd most popular biography from Israel (up from 212th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Israeli Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Yigal Amir ranks 112 out of 283. Before him are Monika Ertl, Horst Mahler, Baruch Goldstein, Therese Brandl, Eugen Weidmann, and Dokka Umarov. After him are Joachim Kroll, Dennis Nilsen, Kōzō Okamoto, Omar Abdel-Rahman, Sante Geronimo Caserio, and Delphine LaLaurie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Yigal Amir ranks 39. Before him are Frank de Boer, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Tonya Harding, Andrej Plenković, John Frusciante, and Roberto Di Matteo. After him are Phillip Cocu, Christian Karembeu, Gabriela Sabatini, Paolo Sorrentino, Queen Rania of Jordan, and Yann Tiersen.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Yigal Amir ranks 183 out of 466. Before him are Suha Arafat (1963), Eutocius of Ascalon (480), Dalia Itzik (1952), Haya Harareet (1931), Dana International (1969), and Zahir al-Umar (1689). After him are Sarah Aaronsohn (1890), Ivry Gitlis (1922), Chaim Topol (1935), Eliahu Inbal (1936), Amos Tversky (1937), and Peter I, Count of Alençon (1251).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Israel

Among extremists born in Israel, Yigal Amir ranks 5. Before him are George Habash (1926), Abu Nidal (1937), Wadie Haddad (1927), and Sirhan Sirhan (1944).

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