Yigal Amir, the convicted assassin of Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, petitioned the Petach Tikva District Court recently to be released from isolation at the Rimon Prison in order to pray with a quorum of ten men (minyan in Hebrew). In his petition, Amir wrote, "It has been 15 years and there's no precedent in the Prisons Service." He is asking to at least be permitted to pray in the prison's synagogue during the High Holy Days under the basic law of freedom of religion.
Another hearing is scheduled for September in the state's request to keep the former Bar-Ilan University law student in solitary confinement, where he has been since his arrest. In his appeal, he wrote that the conditions of his isolation are made worse from time due to political and media pressure.