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Amir was born to a Yemenite national-religious Jewish family in Herzliya. He attended Haredi elementary school and yeshiva in his formal education, and served in the Golani Brigade during his IDFThe Israel Defense Forces (IDF ( Hebrew: Ts va Ha Ha ganah L e-Yisrael [Army] Force [for] the Defense of Israel , often abbreviated " Ts''a''h''a''l alternative English spelling Tz''a''h''a''l is the name of Israel's armed forces (army, air force and navy service. A law student at Bar-Ilan University, he was involved in organizing demonstrations against the Oslo Accords.
Amir perceived the Oslo Accords as national treasonIn law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to one's nation. A person who reneges on an oath of loyalty or a pledge of allegiance, and in some way willfully cooperates with an enemy, is considered to be a traitor . Oran's Dictionary of the Law ( 1983) defi and a threat to the existence of Israel, which led to his decision to assassinate Rabin. His brother, Hagai, and his friend Dror Adani, were his accomplices in this plan. Amir had attempted to assassinate Rabin twice throughout 1995, but these plans fell through moments before implementation.
On November 4th, 1995, after a demonstration held in support of the peace process, held in Tel-Aviv's "Square of the Kings of Israel" (Kikar Malkhei Yisrael כיכר מלכי ישראל, now Kikar Rabin כיכר רבין), Amir awaited Rabin in the parking lot adjacent the square, where he assassinated him with two shots of a pistol, and injured a security guard with another shot.
The gun used by Amir was a BerettaThe Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta is a major Italian gun manufacturing company. Their weapons are used extensively by civilians, police and militaries all over the world. Beretta is the world's oldest corporation, and has been owned by the same family fo 84F semi-automatic pistol in .380 ACP caliber, serial number D98231Y.
Amir was caught at the scene of the crime and was sentenced to life imprisonment, and 6 additional years in prison for injuring a security guard. In a later trial, he was sentenced to 5 years (and after an appeal on behalf of the State, 8 years) for conspiring to commit the murder with his brother and Adani. All punishments were accumulative.
Amir was held in isolation in the Be'er ShevaBeersheba or Beer Sheva ( Hebrew alphabet "Well of the Oath", Standard Hebrew Ber Ševa Tiberian Hebrew Ber Šea / Ber Ša Arabic Bir as-Sab is a city in Israel. It is the largest city of the Negev desert, and often known as the "Capital of Prison, and was moved to the Ayalon Prison in 2003. His appeals on both punishments were rejected.
Amir has never expressed regret for his act of murder.
Most of the Right wing condemned the assassination despite the vast differences in political views and the widespread disgust at Rabin's policies which the Right felt both emboldened the terrorists and gave them a territorial stronghold within Israel.