Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin petitioned an Israeli court to move him from solitary confinement and ease other prison conditions. Yigal Amir, who is serving a life sentence for the 1995 assassination of Rabin, also asked that he be moved to a jail with other religious inmates and that he be allowed to meet once a month with his brother.
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