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Hagai Amir

Hagai Amir is the brother of Yigal Amir and was convicted of conspiracy to murder Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in 1995.

born 1968Conspiracy in Rabin's assassinationBrother of Yigal AmirThreat against Ariel Sharon

Born: 7 December 1968, Herzliya

Hagai Amir was born in 1968 in Herzliya

Hagai Amir was born in Herzliya in 1968. His mother Geula worked as a kindergarten teacher, and his father Shlomo is a scribe of religious texts.

He was convicted of conspiracy to murder Yitzhak Rabin, conspiracy to harm Arab residents and Palestinian police in Judea and Samaria, and illegal weapons manufacture and possession. He was acquitted of one conspiracy charge. The Tel Aviv District Court sentenced him to 12 years, and the Supreme Court raised the sentence to 16 years.

He altered bullets that his brother placed in his pistol magazine. In 2006 he was also convicted of threatening Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, and half of an added year was joined to his term. He spent most of his prison years in separation and was released in 2012.

After his release he lives with his parents in Herzliya and works as a welder in a metal shop he opened. He spreads his views on Facebook and supports a binational state. In 2015 he was arrested on suspicion of incitement after a post about President Reuven Rivlin.