Two months after being released from a 16-year prison sentence for conspiring with his brother, Yigal, to assassinate former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Hagai Amir is making headlines again, this time on Facebook. On Sunday, Hagai posted passages from his personal journal, which he kept throughout his imprisonment, on his Facebook page. The passages posted were from the outset of Hagai's imprisonment in 1996. "Today, February 1, 1996, I am imprisoned in Abu Kabir for the acts of my brother, Yigal on November 4, when he sent Prime Minister Rabin the tribulations of a tour with a number of angels of destruction," Hagai wrote, under the title "Prison Diary." In later passages, Hagai wrote about Avishai Raviv, the Israel Security Agency agent who had befriended Yigal Amir in college under deep over, and apparently knew of the plans to assassinate Rabin. Raviv had helped Yigal Amir found his extreme rightist organization, Eyal, and was active in the organization as well. Following the assassination, Raviv was tried for failing to prevent the murder. His defense was that he had worked hard to understand Amir's plans but events had spun out of control. Raviv was acquitted in 2003. "They said today in the news that my brother [Yigal] testified that 'he knew that Avishai was an ISA agent, thus he wondered why Avishai did not reveal the detailed plan we had to kill Rabin.' This is obviously complete bogus ... I think that my brother said this to embarrass the ISA and cause some media chaos." Hagai also claimed that Raviv had enough information about their plans to stop them. "I believe that he was a double agent," Hagai writes. "He knew enough to incriminate us. Here in prison, I have actually discovered many things that, if I known them before, would have allowed us to do it all differently and not get caught. But Gali [as he refers to Yigal] was essentially ready to endanger his own life. I will keep my mouth shut and support him to the best of my ability." On his Facebook page, Hagai promised to share more passages from his prison journal soon.
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Rabin murderer's brother shares diary on Facebook
Hagai Amir, conspirator to murder former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, recently released, posts: "Here in prison, I have actually discovered many things that, if I known them before, would have allowed us to do it all differently and not get caught."