As Israel marked 13 years since prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was murdered at the hands of an extreme right winger, Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer said Tuesday that the next political assassination was "around the corner."
An unofficial ceremony was held at Jerusalem's Herzl Mount cemetery in Rabin's honor on Tuesday. The official ceremony will be held on November 8, the anniversary of the date according to the Hebrew calendar.
The ceremony was attended by former and current Labor Party members, among them Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Ophir Pines-Paz and former deputy defense minister Efraim Sneh. Rabin's relatives were also in attendance, including his sister, his daughter and his grandchildren. Rabin's son, Yuval, did not attend the ceremony.
In his address, Ben-Eliezer said "the writing is on the wall again, and this time in bigger and clearer letters: the next political assassination is around the corder. Somewhere in Israel someone is already holding a loaded weapon, and there is someone giving that person spiritual inspiration and a sense of an ideological mission."
Ben-Eliezer also criticized the West Bank settlers, saying "those who can't survive on day without the protection of the Israel Defense Forces and the Border Police, allow themselves to curse and assault soldiers and officers on duty."
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