Opposition Leader Tzipi Livni expressed her opposition Friday to an initiative to clear the name of Margalit Har-Shefi in the 1995 assassination of Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin. Har-Shefi served half of a nine-year sentence for not trying to stop convicted assassin Yigal Amir from carrying out the murder after she testified that he had told her of his intent.
In a telephone call to Rabin's daughter Dalia, Livni said the assassination must not be labelled as matter of right and left. She added that as a former justice minister, she opposed the involvement of Knesset members in legal cases, especially the Rabin case, which would make it the subject of unwanted political talk.