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• president moshe katsav
• moshe katsav
• israel defense forces
• hunger strikes
• mother geula
• life imprisonment
• kindergarten teacher
• golani brigade
• prison regulations
• army training
• religious study
• herzliya
• sofer
• good behavior
• shlomo
• absolution
• yeshiva
• rabbi
• forgiveness

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Yigal Amir, Yigal Amir

His mother, Geula, a kindergarten teacher, and his father, Shlomo, a sofer and rabbi, emigrated to Israel from Yemen. Yigal Amir attended a Haredi elementary school in Herzliya and a high school yeshiva in Tel Aviv. He then joined the Israel Defense Forces as a Hesder student, combining army training in the Golani Brigade with religious study at Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh.

All of the sentences were cumulative. In Israel, a sentence of Life Imprisonment is usually reduced to a period of 20-30 years by the president, with the possibility of further reduction for good behavior. However, the president did not reduce the sentence, and president Moshe Katsav said that there is "no forgiveness, no absolution and no pardon" for Yigal Amir.

When the treatments were withheld due to a petition by several members of Knesset, Yigal Amir refused to eat. After being warned that hunger strikes are in violation with prison regulations, some of his privileges were canceled.

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