A firebomb was thrown at the home of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s convicted assassin, Yigal Amir, causing damage to a fence, but injuring no one. No suspects were caught. The incident came one day after vandals spray-painted slogans calling Rabin a traitor and a murderer on a memorial to him in Jerusalem.
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