List of assassinations in Asia
Date Victim ( s ) Notes
582/1 BCE Gedaliah , governor of Yehud
1134 Hugh II of Le Puiset , count of Jaffa Attacked by a Breton knight , and died of his wounds shortly after
October 1174 Miles of Plancy , regent of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
April 28 , 1192 Conrad of Montferrat , King of Jerusalem , leader in the Third Crusade Killed by Hashshashin
June 30 , 1924 Jacob Israël de Haan , pro- Orthodox Jewish diplomat Killed by members of Haganah
June 16 , 1933 Haim Arlosoroff , Zionist leader in the British Mandate of Palestine
August 26 , 1939 Ralph Cairns , commander of the Palestine Police CID 's Jewish Section in Jerusalem Assassinated by Irgun under orders from Hanoch Kalai
May 28 , 1948 Thomas C. Wasson , US Consul General in Jerusalem
September 17 , 1948 Folke Bernadotte , Middle East peace mediator Assassinated by Lehi
March 15 , 1957 Rudolf Kastner , Hungarian Zionist leader , negotiated the Kasztner train with the Nazis
January 12 , 1981 Hamad Abu Rabia , member of the Knesset Killed by the sons of Jabr Muadi
November 4 , 1995 Yitzhak Rabin , Prime Minister of Israel and 1994 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Attack carried out by Israeli opposed to Oslo Accords . See Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
December 31 , 2000 Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane , son of Meir David Kahane , leader of Kahane Chai , Zionist
October 17 , 2001 Rehavam Zeevi , Israeli general and politician
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This is a list of assassinations which took place on the continent of Asia. For the purposes of this article, an assassination is defined as the deliberate, premeditated murder of a prominent figure, often for religious or political reasons.