TEL AVIV, Jan 19: Israel's prison director said on Monday he would forbid the killer of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin to marry in prison, after reports of his wedding plans stirred a national uproar.

Rabin's daughter, Dalia Rabin-Pelosoff, was admitted to hospital with an irregular heartbeat after hearing Israel media reports that Yigal Amir was planning to marry an ultra-Orthodox divorcee, a family friend said on Army Radio.

Yigal Amir is serving a life sentence for shooting Rabin as he left a peace rally in November 1995. Amir, an ultra-nationalist, believed Rabin, who led a centre-left government, had betrayed Israel by concluding interim peace deals with the Palestinians.

His fiance, Larisa Trimbobler, was described in the Israeli media as an immigrant from the former Soviet Union and mother of four. The reports said she had exchanged letters with Amir and been granted rare rights to visit him in an isolation block. "I am aware that (the marriage) will be difficult," Trimbobler told Israel's Channel 2 Television.-Reuters