Raviv Trial Attracts Noted Personalities
Former GSS head Ami Ayalon will testify tomorrow at the trial of GSS agent provocateur Avishai Raviv - by request of the defense. The testimony will be heard behind closed doors. Yigal Amir, convicted assassin of the late Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, will testify on Wednesday that Raviv knew nothing of his plans to kill Rabin. Raviv had asked that Attorney-General Elyakim Rubenstein also be required to testify, but the Jerusalem Magistrates Court turned him down.
HaTzofeh newspaper reported last year that Avishai Raviv told the police during his original interrogation that he heard Yigal Amir speak clearly - five times - of his plans to murder Rabin. Raviv is being charged with "not preventing" Rabin's murder - and not with encouraging it, even though several witnesses testified that they heard him try to goad Amir into killing Rabin. Many nationalist camp leaders attribute a major role to Avishai Raviv in the anti-right-wing atmosphere that pervaded much of the country in the years following and immediately preceding the assassination.
Former GSS head Ami Ayalon will testify tomorrow at the trial of GSS agent provocateur Avishai Raviv - by request of the defense. The testimony will be heard behind closed doors. Yigal Amir, convicted assassin of the late Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, will testify on Wednesday that Raviv knew nothing of his plans to kill Rabin. Raviv had asked that Attorney-General Elyakim Rubenstein also be required to testify, but the Jerusalem Magistrates Court turned him down.
HaTzofeh newspaper reported last year that Avishai Raviv told the police during his original interrogation that he heard Yigal Amir speak clearly - five times - of his plans to murder Rabin. Raviv is being charged with "not preventing" Rabin's murder - and not with encouraging it, even though several witnesses testified that they heard him try to goad Amir into killing Rabin. Many nationalist camp leaders attribute a major role to Avishai Raviv in the anti-right-wing atmosphere that pervaded much of the country in the years following and immediately preceding the assassination.