Michaeli: "Rabin was murdered politically with the collaboration of Benjamin Netanyahu" (Israel Hayom)
More than 300 former Shin Bet officials, including five service chiefs, issued a call on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday evening to retract his statement that the Shin Bet printed a sign of Yitzhak Rabin in the uniform of a Nazi officer. In his book "Bibi - The Story of My Life," Netanyahu claimed that "Avishai Raviv (Champagne), who distributed the poster, was an ISA agent tasked with inciting the demonstrators of the religious right (...). What an absurdity: I was accused of incitement against a prime minister through a homemade poster printed by the Shin Bet."
Former Shin Bet officials, including 18 division heads (equivalent to a major general in the IDF), called the remarks "lies and distortions of facts" and claimed that they harmed "the legitimacy and statehood of the service and state security." Ami Ayalon, former head of the Shin Bet, attacked Netanyahu, claiming that "the attempt he makes in his book to rewrite history is part of the polarization and division process that he has led since he entered politics."
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Netanyahu (Photo: official website, Alex Kolomoisky)
In the letter, the former Shin Bet chiefs explained that the person who made Rabin's poster in SS uniform was S., an ultra-Orthodox man who was 16 at the time of the incident, photographed it several times on a photocopier in a store in Jerusalem and printed seven copies, some of which Avishai Raviv took. During interrogation, S. admitted that he was the one who prepared and printed the poster. The poster was also signed by former Police Commissioner Roni Alsheikh, who served in the Shin Bet, and Dvir Kariv, who first interrogated Yigal Amir after he murdered Yitzhak Rabin.
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