Rabin's killer to be allowed conjugal visits
Israeli authorities have agreed to allow Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin to receive conjugal visits in prison so he and his wife can try to start a family, Israeli media reported today.
The reports said that the Shin Bet security agency had determined that Yigal Amir, serving a life sentence without parole for the 1995 assassination, did not pose a threat to the public and should be allowed to consummate his two-year-old marriage.
Amir married Larissa Trimbobler by proxy in 2004 and in June this year the Israeli Supreme Court upheld their right to conceive, but limited their efforts to artificial insemination because the Prisons Service opposed allowing them conjugal visits.
Israel Radio and Israeli Army Radio today said the Shin Bet had advised prison authorities to drop the ban, saying that Amir had moderated his political views and was not at present a threat to the public.
Amir, an ultra-nationalist Jew, killed Rabin in an attempt to stop the handover of land in Israeli-Palestinian peace deals.
The assassination was a major blow to peace efforts.
