Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Yitzhak Rabin, Israel’s prime minister from 1974–77 and 1992–95, when he was assassinated by a right-wing extremist. He presided over the signing of the Oslo Accords.
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Fast Forward Rabin Assassin Yigal Amir To Ask For Retrial
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Yigal Amir, who assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, is asking for a retrial. Amir, 47, was sentenced to life in solitary confinement in prison for the murder, which occurred after a peace rally in Tel Aviv. Amir confessed to shooting Rabin and reenacted it for police. He opposed Rabin’s territorial…
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Art 21 Years Later, A Tel Aviv Mural Pays Tribute To Yitzhak Rabin — And Issues A Warning
Elinoy Kisslove is used to receiving odd answers when she asks younger participants in her Tel Aviv graffiti tours what they see in the blurry, black-and-white mural at 26 Florentin Street. “The universe,” someone said to her once. “A womb,” suggested another. Those who live near the mural – mostly 20-somethings attracted to the gentrifying…
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Opinion State Of Disrepair: Remember When Israeli Leaders Did The Right Thing?
Often, as the saying goes, power corrupts, and long-term power corrupts even more. In Israel, this situation has often been characterized as the collusion of wealth, government and the media. Over the past two decades, the deterioration of the quality of governance in Israel has been pronounced: The former president, Moshe Katsav, has been just…
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Opinion State Of Disrepair: Remember When Israeli Leaders Did The Right Thing
Often, as the saying goes, power corrupts, and long-term power corrupts even more. In Israel, this situation has been often characterized as the collusion of wealth, government and the media. Over the last two decades, the deterioration of the quality of governance in Israel has been pronounced: the former president, Moshe Katsav, has been just…
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Israel News The Jordanian Yitzhak Rabin Gets Married
A man known as the Jordanian Yitzhak Rabin got married in Eilat on Dec. 22. Twenty-year-old Yitzhak Rabin Ramsy, who was born in Jordan, is named after the Israeli statesman who was assassinated in 1995. His unique story has made the Israeli and international press several times over the years. Ramsy’s parents were inspired by…
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News King David Hotel Boots Guests for Leaders at Shimon Peres Funeral
Booked a big suite at the King David this weekend? Unless you’re the president of a major world power, you better start making other plans. Managers at the historic Jerusalem hotel are booting guests from prime rooms to make space for more than 30 heads of state expected to attend the funeral of the Israeli…
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Life Bambi Sheleg, Lone Gentle Voice in Israeli Media Wilderness, Dies at 58
Bambi Sheleg, an Israeli journalist who devoted her life to healing the divisions in Israeli society after Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, died on August 15 after a prolonged illness at age 58, Haaretz reported. Soft-spoken and humble, Sheleg cut a drastically different figure from Israel’s hotheaded media personalities. It was an ethos she brought…
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Opinion Is Donald Trump Echoing the Incitement That Killed Yitzhak Rabin?
If we thought about it, most of us would probably assume we’d know incitement to violence when we see it. Most of us, unfortunately, would be kidding ourselves. Don’t believe me? Take this simple test. Which of the following statements looks like incitement to you? 1) “…to the men of the West Bank: Form stabbing…
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News The great tent conspiracy theory: Are ‘outside agitators’ supplying protesters’ tents?
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Opinion I teach Israel studies at NYU. We are importing the worst of Israel and Palestine to our campuses
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Opinion Yes, antisemitism is rising. But pro-Palestinian protests aren’t the real threat to our campuses
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Theater Hidden in this picture, the murder of 1.1 million Jews
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Fast Forward Marjorie Taylor Greene says she opposed antisemitism bill because it rejects ‘Gospel’ that ‘the Jews’ handed Jesus to executioners
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Film & TV Just how accurate is the Peacock series ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz?’
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Opinion I’m a UCLA professor. Why didn’t the administration stop last night’s egregious violence?
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Opinion Violence at UCLA will only produce more violence. A remarkable Palestinian peace activist showed me an alternate way