JERUSALEM, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- A right-wing Israeli group is about to begin a campaign to win the release of the man convicted of killing former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, a report says.
Yigal Amir, a law student who had organized rallies against the Oslo Accords, shot Rabin in 1996 at a peace rally in Tel Aviv. He was sentenced to life in prison.
The campaign to be started next week includes a pamphlet headlined "A time for peace, a time for reconciliation -- it's about time to free Yigal Amir," Haaretz reported. A video is reportedly in production.
A poll released Monday by Ma'ariv found that 26 percent of Israelis think that Amir should be freed by 2015. He has far more support among religious Jews with 46 percent saying they do not think he was Rabin's assassin, The Jerusalem Post said.
Amir's wife is carrying their first child, and a majority of the religious said that he should be granted leave from prison to attend the circumcision if it is a son.
