A new book claims to offer “shocking” new evidence about the assassination of Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. “The Man Who Shouted Idle, Idle” was written by authors who come from both ends of the political spectrum, and their whole goal is to start a renewed investigation of the affair.
They completely reject the possibility that the Shin Bet was behind Yitzhak Rabin’s murder, or that Yigal Amir is not the Prime Minister’s killer.
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After the Yitzhak Rabin assassination, conspiracy theories abounded that suggested the man charged with the killing did not act alone and that someone in the security establishment may have been behind it. The Rabin assassination has lent itself to as many conspiracy theories and theorists as did the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy in the U.S.
Some of the claims made in the book for the first time include the sighting of 10 religious people who were said to have walked up to Yitzhak Rabin’s car just seconds before the assassination. Another claim says that someone placed a metal equipment box between the Tel Aviv city hall steps (site of the assassination) and the Prime Minister’s car seconds before Rabin and his entourage descended on the scene.
The book also asks why Yitrzhak Rabin’s bodyguards (allegedly) ran with their weapons drawn towards Ibn Gvirol Street (where Rabin was killed) just seconds before the shots were fired at the Prime Minister.
The book asks what exactly the security failure was on the night of the murder, and why are the details of that failure hidden from the public in Israel to this day?
Who is that thin young man, wearing a kippah, wearing a red flannel shirt, who repeatedly tried to penetrate the stage of the dignitaries at the peace rally at the end of which Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated? Why didn’t anyone arrest him even though it became clear at the rally itself that he was posing as an undercover policeman and a technical staff member?
Who is the tall, brown man who approached Yigal Amir (Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin), about twenty minutes before the Prime Minister’s assassination, put a hand on his shoulder, and talked with him for a few moments?
Who is the policeman who tried to stop Ronnie Kempler from filming Rabin falling to his death? Why was Kempler’s film leaked, and which important parts of it were never broadcast to the Israeli public?
Why did the police and Shin Bet gather dozens of photographic evidence from the square on the night of the murder, documentation that came to the Shamgar Committee, but has since disappeared, and no one knows what happened to it?
For what purpose exactly was Avishi Raviv (an undercover police operative) employed as a provocateur in the ranks of the settlers? Are senior Israeli politicians the ones who initiated its activation? Who were the other senior officials who shared in the secret of Raviv’s activation, and why was he never prosecuted for his complicity in planning the assassination of the prime minister?
The authors say that they deal with these issues and provide a long series of testimonies that have not been revealed to the public until today, indicating that Yigal Amir did not act alone, and that he apparently had accomplices who acted at the scene of the murder.
The author asserts that despite their clear exposure in the evidence collected from the murder scene, these accomplices were never arrested, interrogated, or brought to trial.
The book opposes any conspiracy theory, does not engage in interpretation, and relies on thousands of pages of testimony and evidence from the murder investigation.
