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Article: MURDER IN THE NAME OF GOD: The Plot to Kill Yitzhak Rabin.(Review)
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- The Washington Monthly
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- December 1, 1998
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Yitzhak Rabin's murder revealed a lethal rift in Israeli society
MURDER IN THE NAME OF GOD: The Plot to Kill Yitzhak Rabin
By Michael Karpin and Ina Friedman Metropolitan Books, $24.95
In October 1995, on the eve of Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, a group of Israelis led by Avigdor Eskin gathered outside the home of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Wrapped in prayer shawls, they intoned the ancient Aramaic chant Pulsa da-Nura ("Lashes of Fire"), a Kabbalistic curse: "I deliver to you, the angels of wrath and ire, Yitzhak, the son of Rosa Rabin, that you may smother him and the specter of him, and cast him into bed, and dry up his wealth, ...