Yitzhak Rabin’s jailed assassin declared a hunger strike for conjugal rights. Yigal Amir informed the warden of Ayalon Prison, where he is serving a life sentence in solitary confinement, that he will starve himself unless he is allowed private visits with his wife Larissa Trimbobbler, authorities said Tuesday.
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