Rabin killer’s bid for freedom

A mysterious Jewish millionaire in America is bankrolling a high-profile campaign to secure the freedom of Yigal Amir, currently serving a life sentence without parole for assassinating the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.

Earlier this week, a pressure group representing hardline Israeli nationalists announced that the unidentified benefactor has funded a slickly-produced video calling for Amir to be pardoned, which will be distributed free to the public. Members of the singularly ill-named Committee for Democracy said the video was produced in response to the release earlier this week of some 200 Palestinian prisoners held on security grounds and last month's exchange of a convicted Lebanese terrorist for the remains of two Israeli soldiers.

A key figure in the Committee for