Israeli investigation widened
Government suspects
another acted as ‘catalyst’
in slaying of Rabin
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Suspecting that
others may have encouraged the gunman who
assassinated Yitzhak Rabin, the government on
Wednesday described a new suspect as a “cata
lyst” for the attack and launched a crackdown
on Jews who preach violence.
As the investigation widened, so did a probe
of how the confessed assassin penetrated Israeli
security. The head of Shin Bet’s VIP protection
branch resigned, and the government ordered a
full-scale investigation into security breaches the
night the premier was gunned down.
The new suspect, Avishai Raviv, head of the
militant right-wing group Eyal, appeared before
a magistrate Wednesday and was ordered held
for seven days. Police are investigating whether
he knew in advance about Yigal Amir’s plans to
kill Rabin.
Amir, who has confessed to the shooting, and
his older brother, Hagai, are already under ar
rest.
“This is a political investigation! This is a
dictatorship!” Raviv shouted as guards brought
him into Tel Aviv’s Magistrate Court. He was
arrested Monday night.
Police said they considered the 28-year-old
Raviv, whose group is linked to the banned anti
Arab Kach movement, “a catalyst in the mur
der of Rabin.”
Raviv admitted knowing Amir, a 25-year-old
religious nationalist, and meeting him only six
days before the murder. But he maintained he
never tookAmir’s talk of killing Rabin seriously
and was therefore not culpable.
“You ask did he (Amir) say something... OK,
so he did. But I didn’t know about his inten
tions, or I would have reported it, “ said Raviv,
dressed in a blue skullcap, T-shirt and jeans.
Police said they had no comment on an Is
rael radio report that two additional suspects are
also in custody. The radio identified them as
Eyal member Benny Aharoni and West Bank
seminary student Dror Adani, thought to be a
friend of Amir.
In a Cabinet meeting Wednesday, Peres
promised to move quickly against Jewish ex
tremists.
“We must not hesitate to use all the means at
our disposal against people indulging in incite
ment, the instigators and those who pull the trig
ger,” he said.
There were indications that Peres — who as
foreign minister was widely seen as the main
visionary of peace — might significantly ac
celerate negotiations with both Syria and the
PLO.
The Labor Party has ruled out holding early
elections in the wake of Rabin’s assassination
and wants to move swiftly in the stalled talks
on a land-for-peace deal with Syria, party mem
ber Eli Dayan said.
The Haaretz daily newspaper said Peres’
confidants were also pushing him to speed up
and finish negotiations with the PLO, going
beyond Rabin’s autonomy agreements to a per
manent solution to the decades-old Israeli-Pal
estinian conflict.
That would mean addressing issues Rabin
preferred to put off — like Palestinian statehood
and the future of Jerusalem and Jewish settle
ments in the West Bank and Gaza.
The Cabinet also heard the findings of an
initial Shin Bet probe into Rabin’s assassina
tion Saturday night at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
The security agency is in charge of protecting
Israel’s leaders and also keeps tabs on Arab and
Jewish extremists.
The report said Rabin’s bodyguards failed
to shield the premier as he walked to his car
and that unauthorized people were allowed in
the stairway to the terrace from which Rabin
spoke and in the adjacent parking lot.
Rabin’s bodyguards were also too focused
on possible Arab assailants and ill-prepared for
a Jewish attacker, it suggested. Army radio said
Shin Bet received warnings just before the rally
that a Palestinian militant might try to kill Rabin.
In response to the report, the head of Shin
Bet’s VIP protection branch resigned and the
agent in charge of Rabin’s bodyguards was sus
pended, government sources said. An agent in
charge of coordinating with police and another
in charge of security at Saturday’s rally were
being transferred.
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tives for “ad hominem” attacks on his
character. He also said the party would
be wise to show more compassion as it
reforms welfare and to welcome blacks
and other minorities.
“I believe I can help the party of Lin
coln move once again closer to the spirit
of Lincoln,” he said.
In another sign of his awkward transi
tion from soldier to author to prominent
Republican, Powell would not promise to
back the 1996 GOP nominee, saying he
wanted to watch the campaign unfold.
Nor did he rule out voting for President
Clinton.
In the short term, Powell’s decision
was seen as a boon to Senate Majority
Leader Bob Dole, whose position as the
GOP front-runner would have been im
periled by a Powell candidacy. The deci
sion came amid some evidence that con
servatives wary of Powell were rallying
to Dole’s side.
White House aides also breathed a sigh
of relief: At this early date, polls showed
Powell easily beating Clinton in a head
to-head matchup, something none of the
GOP candidates could do.
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