Bomb materials found on Amir

JERUSALEM - Israeli prison authorities said yesterday they had found materials used to make explosives in the jail cell of Hagai…

JERUSALEM - Israeli prison authorities said yesterday they had found materials used to make explosives in the jail cell of Hagai Amir, accused of plotting to kill Yitzhak Rabin along with his brother Yigal Amir.

A prisons spokeswoman said electrical wiring, plastic laces, pages from physics and chemistry textbooks, a candle and sketches of electric circuits were found on Hagai Amir (27) during a body search. Hagai Amir was arrested a day after his younger brother shot Rabin at a Tel Aviv peace rally last November.

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