Why are we so afraid of talking about the prime minister’s assassin’s views and what does this have to do with the Ashkenazi-Mizrahi tensions that still haunt us today?
By NATAN ODENHEIMERUpdated: MARCH 13, 2017 17:17 It was 21 years ago last week, at the end of a peace rally in the heart of Tel Aviv, that a young Jewish man clasped his gun, confidently aimed it at prime minister Yitzhak Rabin’s back and fired three bullets.There is no person or topic that disturbs Israeli society more than Yigal Amir, Rabin’s assassin.Indeed, while the Israeli public can apparently stomach a play written by a Palestinian terrorist in jail – as it recently has – screening of a well-reviewed documentary film called Beyond the Fear about Amir’s wife Larisa was blocked by Culture Minister Miri Regev, who threatened to cut support to the recent Jerusalem Film Festival, if the movie were shown.Many hate Ami