The woman who married Rabin’s assassin

Israel’s political system has over the years produced some politically truly unattractive parties. Some even disgusting. Occasionally you get ridiculous constructs, such as was the case of M. Flatto Sharon, a French embezzler, who took advantage of Israel’s Law of Return (that gives any Jew the right to move to Israel and get Israeli citizenship). In 1977, he established his own party and became a member of the Knesset, to avoid extradition to France, which had issued an international arrest warrant for him. Surprise, surprise, Flatto Sharon was later found guilt by an Israeli court of having bribed voters, in order to get their votes.

The latest “I wouldn’t touch with a barge-pole” is Ms. Larissa Trimbobler. I have no idea what caused this divorcee with four children, to marry the prisoner Ygal Amir, Yitzhak Rabin’s murderer. Amir was allowed to impregnate Trimbobler and in 2007, she gave birth to a son. 

There is no accounting for what makes people fall in love. And yet, wanting to marry that man, is quite something. Giving birth, producing a child with him – is at best irresponsible. The son of the murderer and the woman who chose to devote herself to him, will forever be known as the murderer’s son. 

There is, of course, the possibility that she is in it for the money, that she is being funded by Amir supporters.Taking her exciting life one step further, Trimbobler has established a political party, which demands Amir’s retrial. The next elections in Israel will take place on 2 March.