Calls for reopening Rabin investigation
Shamgar discussed the principal unresolved question: the meaning of the shouts of "Blanks, blanks" as Rabin was shot, calling it "truly one of the points which have remained unclarified", and claimed that the question "haunts all three of [the commission members]." Although Shamgar said that the commission had not discovered evidence of conspiracy, he said the commission "would never claim [to] know everything."
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Amid growing controversy over the handling of the investigation into the murder of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, MK Moshe Katsav (Likud) has called on the government to accede to the request of Rabin's children, Yuval Rabin and MK Dalia Rabin-Pelossof (Center), to establish a new commission in order to perform a more comprehensive examination of the circumstances surrounding Rabin's death. The call came as the state was busy fighting a seemingly hopeless struggle to prevent certain aspects of the case from being released to the public. Education Minister Yossi Sarid (Meretz) added his support, saying that when he was on the secret services subcommittee of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, he sensed "that a fear of investigating rabbis [suspected of incitement] had fallen on the investigating actors, and the full truth was not found." Meir Shamgar, the retired judge who headed the commission which investigated the murder, said on Wednesday in an interview on Army Radio that he was not opposed to clarifying the details of the case which are still unclear to the family. Shamgar discussed the principal unresolved question: the meaning of the shouts of "Blanks, blanks" as Rabin was shot, calling it "truly one of the points which have remained unclarified", and claimed that the question "haunts all three of [the commission members]." Although Shamgar said that the commission had not discovered evidence of conspiracy, he said the commission "would never claim [to] know everything." Certain facts may yet come to light even without a new commission, it appears. An order issued on Tuesday by Justice Yaacov Turkel banning publication of a document containing the minutes of a 1996 conversation between the state attorney, senior attorneys, and Shin Bet representatives, came to naught after the document appeared on the Internet already on Wednesday. The conversation dealt with the 1995 videotape of the "swearing-in ceremony" of the Eyal organization, which was led by Shin Bet agent Avishai Raviv. MK Avshalom Vilan (Meretz) immediately appealed to Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein to close the site, demanding that he take legal steps against those who ride roughshod over the law. Thursday morning Rubinstein announced that websurfers attempting to visit the site found it closed, but shortly afterward, a new address for the document was published in a Walla chat site. By noon, the document had already reappeared on the original site. Arutz Sheva, the right-wing pirate radio station which published the address on its site, is denying any connection with the building of the website or the publication of the document. Jerusalem police are investigating posters saying: "Avishai Raviv: The tip of the iceberg" and accusing Justice Dorit Beinisch, then-State Attorney the time, of conspiring with the Shin Bet on the case. |
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| Publication date - 05/11/1999 |
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