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Jerusalem (JTA) — In a new
twist in the investigation into
Yitzhak Rabin's assassination,
the student who confessed to the
murder told investigators this
week that he had only intended
to cripple Mr. Rabin in an effort
to remove him from the politi-
cal arena.
Yigal Amir made the state-
ment during an interview con-
ducted in his jail cell by two
investigators who were gather-
ing information for the Shamgar
Commission, the state panel of
inquiry into the Nov. 4 assassi-
nation.
"I am incapable of killing in-
nocent people. My intention was
not to kill" Mr. Rabin, Mr. Amir
reportedly said.
"Paralyzing him also would
have been good. That's why I did
not shoot him in the head and
aimed for the spine."
The 25-year-old law student
also told the investigators that
even on the night of the Nov. 4
peace rally in Tel Aviv, he had
not known whether he would be
able to carry out his plan to shoot
Mr. Rabin.
Mr. Amir's trial on charges of
slaying Mr. Rabin is scheduled
to resume Jan. 23. He has not yet
entered a plea to the charges
against him.
Mr. Amir is also being tried
along with his brother Hagai and
friend Dror Adani on charges of
conspiring to assassinate Mr. Ra-
bin, of planning attacks against

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Arabs and of illegal possession of
weapons.
At a hearing in Tel Aviv, the
three were formally charged.
The judges in the case post-
poned the date for that trial un-
til April 17. The three defendants
have Feb. 26 to enter their
pleas.
The judges also ordered that
Hagai Amir and Adani be held
in custody until the conclusion of
the legal proceedings against
them. During the hearing, the
attorney for Hagai Amir charged
that a well-known political ac-
tivist in the territories had acted
as a go-between for Yigal Amir
to obtain rabbinic approval for
the assassination.
The lawyer refused to name
the alleged go-between. The
judges dismissed the charge af-
ter reading the materials pre-
sented by
the lawyer.
The Israeli media reported
that the person was Benny Kat-
zover, a leading activist in the
Yesha Council, which represents
Jewish settlers in the West Bank
and Gaza Strip.
Mr. Katzover strongly denied
the claim, saying that he had met
Yigal Amir a few times during
protests in the territories, but
that he had never been any kind
of mediator.
Mr. Katzover said he was con-
sidering bringing a libel suit
against Hagai Amir's attorney
over the matter.

Two Priests
Declared Martyrs

Rome (JTA) — The Vatican has
declared as martyrs an Austrian
and a German, both Roman
Catholic priests who died at the
hands of the Nazis.
The declaration, announced in
a Vatican statement, could even-
tually lead to the canonization of
the two priests.
Pope John Paul II attended
the ceremony.
Austrian priest Otto Neurur-
er was tortured to death at the
Buchenwald concentration camp,
the statement said.
German priest Karl Leisner
was ordained in 1944 while he
was a prisoner at Dachau. He
died in August 1945 from a lung
disease he contracted there.
The two men were part of a

group of 12 Roman Catholics
from various countries and var-
ious times in history to whom
miracles, martyrdom or "heroic
virtues" were formally attributed
by the Vatican department that
examines candidates for saint-
hood.
The pope recently said that he
would announce this summer
that an anti-Nazi German priest,
the Rev. Bernhard Lichtenberg,
would be put on the path to saint-
hood.
The Rev. Lichtenberg, who
died en route to Dachau, de-
nounced the Nazis from his
Berlin pulpit and closed his ser-
vice with a prayer for the perse-
cuted Jews.

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