Avishai Raviv

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Avishai Raviv was a member of Israel's Shabak, Israel's Secret Police, whose mission was to monitor and manipulate Israel's Right Wing. It is unclear to date which part of his activities were on his own initiative and which ones were directed by Shabak operators.

Raviv married a national religious woman after he already worked for the Shabak. He founded the Eyal youth movement that objected to the Oslo Accords and used harsh language against the government officials who supported it, notably Israel prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. The pictures of Eyal in a nightly meeting at the Baruch Goldstein grave were broadcast in the Israeli news.

Raviv also struck up a friendship with Yigal Amir, a religious law student from Bar Ilan University, who organized protests against the Accords. On multiple occasions, in front of witnesses, Raviv encouraged Yigal Amir to assassinate Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He based his encouragement on the Jewish law of "din rodef" ("law of the pursuer"), which sanctions the killing of another Jew to prevent him from giving Jewish land to non-Jews: "If a Jew gives up the land of other Jews to Goyim, and he persists in this, that is, he gives up the land of three or more Jews, he is a Rodef." Shulchan Aruch HaRav V. VI The Jerusalem Post, wrote that witnesses heard Raviv tell Amir: "Be a man! Kill him already!" ^[1]

Raviv was brought to trial in 2000 for not preventing Rabin's assassination. Raviv mounted a successful defense on the grounds that he had just been doing his job and events had spun out of control.