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Jerusalem (JTA) — Confessed as-
sassin Yigal Amir re-enacted his
crime for Israeli authorities in the
Tel Aviv parking lot where Yitzhak
Rabin was killed Nov. 4.
With media in attendance and
a crowd of angry onlookers, Mr.
Amir coolly demonstrated the path
he took to get to the car that was
waiting to take Mr. Rabin away
from the peace rally in what has
since been named "Yitzhak Rabin
Square."
Filmed by police cameras, Mr.
Amir, 25, pulled out a toy pistol and
fired three shots at a policeman
who was playing Rabin for the re-
enactment.
One Israeli cursed Mr. Amir,
shouting, "Murderer! Die, mani-
ac!" Another onlooker, reported-
ly restrained by police behind a
barricade, bitterly asked why there
had not been similar security for
Mr. Rabin on the night he was
killed.
Formal charges have not yet
been pressed against Mr. Amir, or
against seven other suspects de-
tained on suspicion of involvement
in a conspiracy to kill the Israeli
leader.
A Tel Aviv court extended by an-
other six days the detention of Ra-
mat Gan resident Michael Epstein.
Mr. Epstein is suspected of hav-
ing indirect links to the plot, and
of belonging to an extremist group
that had planned attacks on Arabs.
In a related development, an-
other suspect arrested in connec-
tion with the assassination told his
attorney that Mr. Amir had sent
him to seek a rabbi's approval for
the murder.
Dror Adani said the rabbi had
rejected the idea, citing religious
law.
Mr. Adani also said that even
though he had given Mr. Amir an
Uzi submachine gun, he denied
that he was involved in a plot to
kill Mr. Rabin.
Meanwhile, the sole woman ar-
rested in connection with the al-
leged conspiracy, Margalit
Harshefi, appealed to the Tel Aviv
District Court against her contin-
ued detention.
Ms. Harshefi, 20, told the court
that she had been already detained
for 48 hours by police the week be-
fore and freed. She said her release
would not interfere with the in-
vestigation.
Ms. Harshefi is a student at Bar-
Ilan University, the same school
attended by Mr. Amir.
Another Bar-Ilan student, 23-
year-old Hila Frank, who knew
Mr.Amir and alerted security
forces of his plans to kill Mr. Ra-
bin, told the Israeli daily Yediot
Achronot that she regretted not
passing on more detailed informa-
tion.
Ms. Frank said she had gotten
to know Mr. Amir through demon-
strations and other right-wing ac-
tivities by students on campus.
In June, Mr. Amir raised her
suspicions that he might be seri-
ously plotting to kill the prime min-
ister in a conversation she had with
him on campus, she said.
She alerted another friend, Shlo-
mo Halevy, who later contacted a
former commander in the army,
who passed the information on to
the police.
However, the two agreed that
they would not reveal Mr. Amir's
name, in the event that he was not
serious.
Mr. Halevy told a similar story,
as reported by Israel Television
earlier this week.
After learning of the assassina-
tion, Ms. Frank said, she was
shocked.
"If only I could turn the clock
back, it is clear we would have giv-
en his full details," she said.
Maccabees' Caves
Are Discovered
(JTA) — Workers
Jerusalem (JTA)
widening a road in central Israel
found burial caves with clear links
to the Maccabees, who rebelled
against Greek rule in the 2nd cen-
tury BCE.
Archaeologists from Israel's An-
tiquities Authority described the
find as extremely important.
The site includes three burial
caves, with some 23 containers for
human bones.
The tomb was found near the
town of Modi'in, where the family
leader of the Maccabees, also
known as the Hasmoneans, re-
volted against the Greek Seleucids
in about 170 BCE.
A spokeswoman for Israel's An-
tiquities Authority said the find
was the first archaeological proof
of the ancient events that are cel-
ebrated during the Chanukah hol-
iday.
She said a number of the burial
urns had Jewish inscriptions in
Hebrew, adding that one had most
of the word "Hashmonaim," the
Hebrew for Hasmonean, on it.
The find was not made public
until the archaeologists had stud-
ied the bones, which were then
passed on to religious authorities
for burial.
The Antiquities Authority and
Public Works Authority decided to
suspend the road construction
work for two weeks, until the area
could be further excavated.
The officials also said they would
seek to have the proposed route of
the road altered in order to pre-
serve the site.
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