In recent years , a number of rabbis have allegedly suggested that various public figures could qualify as '' rodfim '' , arguably encouraging one to kill . Perhaps most notoriously , former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was branded a '' rodef '' by some for the Oslo Accord , an agreement for which he was assassinated in 1995 . The assassin , Yigal Amir , subsequently justified his actions partly on the basis of '' din rodef '' , under the assumption that making concessions to the Palestinian Authority would endanger Jewish lives
was assassinated in 1995
Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
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