This is 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 Israeli Youth See Rabin’s Killing as Lesson
About a year before Guy Ben-Simon was born, his parents attended the Tel Aviv rally where Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated. It was a night of shock and sadness, they recalled for him while he was growing up. They had called all of their friends, telling those who had not heard that the prime minister had…
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Fast Forward Bibi Calls Yitzhak Rabin Murder ‘Worst Crime’
The murder of Yitzhak Rabin was “one of the worst crimes of the new age,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “It certainly besmirches the annals of the state and of Zionism. It will be etched in Jewish history along with other traumatic events,” Netanyahu said Sunday at the weekly Cabinet meeting, which opened with a…
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Fast Forward 20,000 Gather To Remember Yitzhak Rabin
About 20,000 people gathered in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square to pay tribute to the memory of slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The rally was organized by Israeli youth movements and was held under the banner of “Remembering the murder – fighting for democracy.” The event was held Saturday night in the same public square where…
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Opinion Rabin’s Killer+Hamas=BFF
The brother of Yitzhak Rabin’s killer has said that the assassin gets along fine with jailed Hamas terrorists and sees “no difference” between himself and the sworn enemies of Israel. Hagai Amir made the comment in his first interview since his release in May. His brother Yigal Amir, Rabin’s killer, is still in prison. For…
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Fast Forward Extremists Confront Rabin’s Granddaughter
Extreme right-wing activists clashed with the granddaughter of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at the end of an event marking the 20th anniversary of the second Rabin government. Baruch Marzel and Itamar Ben-Gvir confronted Noa Rotman, the former Noa Ben-Artzi, in the parking lot of the Rabin Center in Jerusalem, where the former government…
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Opinion Returning to Rabin’s Zionism
On a hopeful evening in early November 1995, a broad cross-section of Israel’s population gathered in Tel Aviv’s Kings of Israel Square to join together for the cause of peace. They came to hear from their leader, Yitzhak Rabin, recently awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the Oslo Accords. Rabin’s words that…
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Opinion ‘Criticize Away’: Hartman Institute Debates Debating
Havruta, a journal of the Shalom Hartman Institute, features a symposium on whether and how to criticize Israel in its February 2012 issue. It makes for interesting reading, with special shout-outs to Yossi Klein-Halevi’s thought-provoking letter to a right-wing friend and editor Stuart Schoffman’s delightful introduction. My own contribution is below. I would link directly…
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Opinion Connect the Dots: IDF vs. Rabbis, Silencing the 99%
Sometimes the biggest news isn’t found in a hot new scoop, but in a recapitulation of a string of things you knew about but hadn’t put together already—or in little details that flesh out a trend you’d heard about, showing you how fast it’s building up. An example of the first: Former labor secretary Robert…
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