Police said Yigal Amir, 25, had links to Jewish extremists opposed to Rabin's efforts to make peace with Israel's Arab neighbors.
"Usually airlines don't allow these people to embark, because then they have to cover the expense of the return flight, " said Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor.
In 1995, Yigal Amir, who said he was acting on God's orders, assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as he left a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
Following Mr. Rabin's murder, a small fringe organization known as Eyal -- with which the assassin, Yigal Amir, was affiliated -- has become the most notorious of these groups.
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Although Mr. Yigal says he only hoped the committee would help him make a "significant dent" in his expenses, some on the committee viewed it as an aggressive money grab.
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"The only way to resolve all pending issues between Israel and the Palestinians, including the settlements issue, is through direct negotiations without preconditions, " said Yigal Palmor, Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman.
"After a series of votes and statements and incidents we have decided to suspend our working relations with that body, " Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told the Financial Times on Tuesday.
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Several committee members say their decision to reject meetings was reinforced in July, when Omri Yigal, the widower of one of those slain, circulated a letter of his needs that included a new house.
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In the early 1990s, Ratio's chief executive, Yigal Landau, from a family of infrastructure magnates, and Ligad Rotlevy, whose family textile business goes back 80 years, formed the company to search for oil onshore.
Mr. Yigal, 54, is a quiet African-American from Tennessee who says he converted to Judaism in 2000, adopted an Israeli-sounding name and moved to Binghamton in 2005 to buy an inexpensive house near a synagogue.
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Mr. Yigal's was from the Philippines.
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Ms. Macklowe's birthday party was populated with fashion designers like Eddie Borgo, Chris Benz, Zang Toi and Yigal Azrouel, as well as friends like the publicist Alison Brod and her husband, Andy, CNN's Alina Cho, Tom and Lori Florio and Lesley Schulhof.
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