06.01.2015 - 05:35 [ Mondo Weiss ]

Gun used to assassinate Rabin is featured in show-and-tell by Israel’s chief archivist

Go to minute 27 of this video tour of featured holdings of the Israel State Archives, and chief archivist Yaacov Lozowick opens a brown archive case, and then a blue box to reveal the gun used to kill Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. Lozowick picks up the gun to display it for the camera, held by a rightwing blogger, Elder of Ziyon.