Assassin can have son’s rite in jail
An Israeli court rejected a request by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin to leave jail to attend his son’s circumcision, but said the ceremony could take place in prison.
The infant is to be circumcised Sunday, the 12th anniversary of the Israeli leader’s slaying. Yigal Amir, an Orthodox Jew, shot Rabin after a peace rally on Nov. 4, 1995, because he opposed the premier’s policy of ceding West Bank land for peace with the Palestinians. Amir was sentenced to life in prison.
Although he is held in isolation, Amir has been permitted conjugal visits over the last year with his wife, Larissa Trimbobler, whom he married by proxy in 2004. The boy was born last weekend, and according to tradition, a healthy Jewish male should be circumcised eight days after his birth.
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