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Article: Extremists celebrate Yigal Amir's birthday

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May 23, 1997
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RAINE MARCUS and BATSHEVA TSUR
Jerusalem Post
05-23-1997
Minor clashes broke out yesterday when groups of left- wing and right-wing activists gathered outside Beersheba Prison, where Yitzhak Rabin's assassin Yigal Amir is incarcerated.

Extreme right-wingers, headed by Avigdor Eskin, wished to celebrate Amir's 27th birthday, and brought him champagne, chocolates, and flowers. But authorities refused to allow Eskin and his group to give the gifts to prison guards.

Eskin, who hurled a stone at a passing taxi driver who shouted at the group, was detained for questioning and released.

Eskin told reporters that if Israeli citizens celebrate the birthday of missing navigator Ron Arad, then he and ...

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