Rabin’s Son Receives Death Threat
The son of late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin received a death threat as he attended a memorial ceremony on the second anniversary of his father’s assassination.
The threat was made Wednesday in a call to Yuval Rabin’s mobile phone, said Tal Silberstein, a leader of the Dor Shalom peace group that was founded after the slaying.
The ominous message was recorded on Rabin’s voicemail and was played on Israel radio Thursday. The caller said: “If you follow in your father’s footsteps, you will end up as he did.”
The premier was shot by Yigal Amir, a religious Jew, during a Nov. 4, 1995, peace rally in Tel Aviv. The anniversary of the assassination was observed Wednesday in accordance with the Hebrew calendar.
Rabin had turned off his mobile phone while attending a memorial service at his father’s grave in a Jerusalem cemetery. The voicemail, which also records the time, showed that the call was placed during the service.
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