Agence France-Presse and the Jerusalem Post yesterday reported that an Israeli district court judge has given Yitzak Rabin's assassin, Yigal Amir, permission to attend his son's religious circumcision scheduled for Sunday. The court refused to permit Amir to attend the ceremony outside his prison, but ruled that the brit milah could take place in the prison, despite objections from prison authorities. Peace Now secretary-general Yariv Oppenheimer has asked the State Attorney to appeal the decision to the High Court of Justice.
Amir's son was conceived during conjugal visits with his wife, who he married in a proxy ceremony in 2004. The circumcision ceremony-- which takes place on the eighth day of a boy's life-- will coincide with the anniversary on the Gregorian calendar of Amir's 1995 shooting of then Prime-Minister Rabin.
