Posted in Murderers/Assassins on Sep 4th, 2008
A Flatbush Yeshiva educated Brooklyn Jew, Baruch Golstein graduated Albert Einstein College and joined the Jewish Defense League. He served the IDF as a doctor, and lived in the Kiryat Arba settlement outside Hebron. One year after being recommended to promotion to the rank of Major, on Purim 1994, Goldstein, wearing his army uniform, entered [...]
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Posted in Murderers/Assassins on Sep 4th, 2008
An Orthodox, Sephardic Israeli, as a right wing law student at Bar-Ilan Amir was already organizing protest rallies against the Oslo accords. He hatched a plan to assassinate Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. On November 4th, 1995, after a pro-peace rally, Amir shot one of Israel’s most courageous soldiers (and first Sabra and non-Polish Prime minister) [...]
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