A brother of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin was barred from mandatory military service in Israel. Amitai Amir, whose elder brother Yigal is serving a life sentence for shooting the Israeli prime minister in 1995, was to have been conscripted this winter for the standard three years of national service, but he was blacklisted by the military after making radical comments, security sources said Monday.
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