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Hard To Assess
Rabin Killer's Plea

Jerusalem (JTA) — A lawyer for
the confessed assassin of Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin said that
he had not yet decided how his
client would plead to the charges
against him.
"At this stage, it is hard for me
to assess," said Mordecai Offri,
one of two lawyers defending Mr.
Amir. "I must study the evi-
dence."
Yigal Amir was brought before
a Tel Aviv court to hear the
charges against him.
The judge ordered the trial to
begin Dec. 19. The court also or-
dered Amir to be held in deten-
tion until the end of the legal
proceedings against him.
Three judges will hear the
case. Israel has no jury system.
Mr. Amir, 25, smiled at
his father and sister as the
charges were read in the court-
room.
He was indicted a day earlier
on charges that included pre-
meditated murder. He faces life
imprisonment if convicted.
Mr. Amir has confessed to the
killing and expressed no remorse
for his actions.
Yonatan Ray Goldberg, the
second lawyer representing Mr.
Amir, lives in the West Bank set-
tlement of Emanuel. He moved
to Israel from Houston seven
years ago.
Mr. Amir is a "good man, not
like the man portrayed in the me-
dia," he told reporters- at the
courtroom.
Mr. Amir was also named in a
separate indictment charging
him, his brother Hagai and friend
Dmr Adani with conspiring to kill
Mr. Rabin and with planning at-
tacks on Arabs. Several weapons
offenses were also listed.
The court ordered Hagai Amir
and Mr. Adani held in detention
until Jan. 7.

Explaining why Hagai Amir
and Mr. Adani were not also
charged with murder, Justice
Minister David Libai said Yigal
Amir had acted independently
when he shot Mr. Rabin at a Nov.
4 peace rally in Tel Aviv.
"In the murder, they could di-
rectly accuse only Yigal Amir be-
cause he acted alone," Judge
Libai told Israel Radio.

Australian Jews
Are Better Off

Sydney, Australia (JTA) — A
government report here has con-
cluded that Australia's Jewish
community is older, better edu-
cated and wealthier than the gen-
eral population.
The report, "Judaism in Aus-
tralia," was released by the
Bureau of Immigrat ion, Multi-
cultural and Popuiation Re-
search.
The study, which used data
from the 1991 population census,
is the first of a series of profiles
on Australia's religious commu-
nities.
Nick Bolkus, a senator and
federal minister for immigration
and ethnic affairs, said, "It is par-
ticularly appropriate that we
start the series with Judaism this
year — the International Year of
Tolerance — because this is the
year in which we mark the 50th
anniversary of the end of the Sec-
ond World War, the liberation of
Nazi concentration camps and
the beginning of Australia's post-
war,
T
planned
pro-
migration
°arn "
More than 85 percent of the es-
timated 105,000 Jews in Aus-
tralia live in Melbourne or
Sydney, the study said.
The Australian Jewish popu-
lation grew by almost 8 percent

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