An Israeli court charged a former informer for Israel’s domestic security service Sunday with failing to prevent the assassination of Labor Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. According to prosecutors, Avishai Raviv, who was recruited to join the Shin Bet in 1987, failed to inform his handlers that Yigal Amir planned to hurt or assassinate Rabin. In a separate development, a Tel Aviv district court rejected an appeal from Amir’s friend, Margalit Har- Shefi, who was sentenced last year to nine months in jail on similar charges.
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