JERUSALEM, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- The Israeli Prisons Service is investigating reports that Yigal Amir, assassin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, was secretly married by phone.
The agency denied reports that two men, supposedly witnesses to Amir's secret marriage with Larissa Trimbobler, visited him recently, the Jerusalem Post said.
According to Jewish law, two male witnesses must attest to the wedding ceremony.
Rabbi Nissim Karlitz from the Rabbinical Court of Bnei Brak, who reportedly married the couple, issued a statement saying he never approved the marriage.
But, in an interview on Israel Radio Friday, Trimbobler said that she is now officially Amir's wife and their secret marriage constitutes no breach of the law. The Maariv website NRG reported that the two were married in a "special ceremony" over the phone.
The Prisons Service earlier rejected Amir's request to be married.
