Graves of Rabin and His Widow Are Desecrated
From Times Wire Reports
Israeli police are investigating the desecration of the graves of slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and his widow that leftist lawmakers blamed on ultranationalists opposed to a Gaza Strip pullout plan.
Authorities said vandals scrawled “murderous dog” in Hebrew on the Jerusalem tomb of Rabin, who was assassinated in 1995 by a far-right Jew incensed by his land-for-peace deals with the Palestinians.
The name of Rabin’s wife Leah, who died of cancer in 2000, was sprayed over on an adjacent headstone.
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