By GIL HOFFMANLarissa Trembovler Amir, wife of Yitzhak Rabin's assassin Yigal Amir, registers her Fair Trial Party(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)
Larissa Trembovler Amir, wife of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin Yigal Amir, registered her new Fair Trial Party with the Central Elections Committee at the Knesset on Tuesday.Trembovler Amir, who has taken the Hebrew first name Renana, told the committee that her party’s aims include obtaining a retrial for her husband and other prisoners, reforms in the legal system and better conditions for prisoners.“Politicians don’t have the courage to do it,” she said. “They care only about themselves and their image.”Democratic Union MK Stav Shaffir has already announced her intention to appeal to the committee to prevent Trembovler Amir’s party from running.The party’s list will be led by Trembovler Amir, followed by Rabbi Moshe Nenikashvili, Liza Yudin, Avraham Sheinman and Shaul Peretz. Yigal Amir’s mother, Geula Amir, is sixth on the list.Only 10 parties submitted applications on the first registration day: Fair Trial, Hazon, Ani Ve’ata, Da’am, Bible Bloc, Lev Yehudi, Israelist, Manhigut hevratit, Mitkedemet and the Economic Dawn Party that broke off from the Zehut party of former Likud MK Moshe Feiglin. In past elections many more parties ran. At least a dozen parties are expected to register Wednesday, when registration ends at 10 p.m.When Bible Bloc head Dennis Lipkin, an American immigrant, registered his party, he was welcomed in English by the head of the Central Elections Committee, New York-born judge Neal Hendel. Lipkin told him that one of the aims of his party was to make it easier to make aliyah.Second on the Economic Dawn list is Amos Dov Silver, founder of the mass cannabis distribution network Telegrass, who fled Ukraine after a Ukrainian court denied his appeal opposing extradition from Ukraine to Israel.Silver was arrested in Ukraine in March following an intense undercover investigation by the Israel Police. He mounted a legal battle in an attempt to appeal his extradition.
Party founder Gilad Alper said he put Silver on the list because he has helped tens of thousands of Israelis obtain medical cannabis that they needed but were unable to receive from the state.Silver’s wife, Gali Amar, told Ynet on Tuesday that the “allegations against [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu are more serious” than those her husband faces, and if “Netanyahu can do it [run for political office], so can we.”Ezra Taylor and Hagay Hacohen contributed to this report.
