In a bid to win permission to marry in prison, Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin proposed that authorities eavesdrop on the consummation. At a High Court of Justice hearing Wednesday on the wedding request, a lawyer for Yigal Amir raised the idea of bugging his bed.
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