Israel’s Supreme Court added to the sentences of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin and his brother. The court Sunday added three years to Yigal Amir’s five-year term and four years to his brother Haggai’s 12-year term on 1996 conspiracy charges. The charges are separate from Yigal Amir’s life imprisonment for shooting Rabin at a Tel Aviv peace rally in November 1995.
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