The widow of Yitzhak Rabin is worried that a Jewish settler may attempt to assassinate current Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Leah Rabin made her comments, in which she said she thought any possible assassination could be a suicide attack, after thousands of settlers demonstrated Sunday against Barak’s plans to dismantle 12 West Bank outposts.
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