An Israeli undercover agent was acquitted of charges that he failed to prevent the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Avishai Raviv was acquitted Monday. Raviv, a right-wing activist, was working for Israel’s Shin Bet when Yigal Amir gunned down Rabin in November 1995.
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