The Jerusalem Magistrate's court has ruled, by a 3-1 margin, that remarks made by former Shin Bet agent provocateur Avishai Raviv immediately after the assassination of the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin can be used against him in his current trial.
Overruling a minority dissenting position expressed by court president Amnon Cohen, the precedent -stating court decision allows prosecutors to question Raviv about various remarks he made after the Rabin assassination. Among the most significant is a statement he made to his Shin Bet operators that he had indeed heard Rabin assassin Yigal Amir talk about the murder before the event.
The Shin Bet will review the full 80-page court decision before publication. A former Kach activist recruited by the Shin Bet security agency as a paid informer in 1987, Raviv, 35, is charged with failing to notify authorities of Yigal Amir's intention to assassinate Rabin. His trial opened this past April, six and a half years after Rabin was assassinated at a rally in Tel Aviv.
Overruling a minority dissenting position expressed by court president Amnon Cohen, the precedent -stating court decision allows prosecutors to question Raviv about various remarks he made after the Rabin assassination. Among the most significant is a statement he made to his Shin Bet operators that he had indeed heard Rabin assassin Yigal Amir talk about the murder before the event.
The Shin Bet will review the full 80-page court decision before publication. A former Kach activist recruited by the Shin Bet security agency as a paid informer in 1987, Raviv, 35, is charged with failing to notify authorities of Yigal Amir's intention to assassinate Rabin. His trial opened this past April, six and a half years after Rabin was assassinated at a rally in Tel Aviv.