Rabbinical law supplied Amir a divine license to kill Rabin

Evidence

Yigal Amir, who assassinated the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, similarly claimed to be acting on a divine mandate, using the rabbinical pursuer’s decree as moral justification. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 355

Categorization

  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 355