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  Encyclopedia: Itzhak Rabin
Rabin was born in Jerusalem in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine.
Rabin resigned from office after two crises hit him: the arrival of four F-15 jets on Sabbath led to the breaking up of his coalition; and the exposure of an illegal dollar fund held by his wife, Leah Rabin.
During the late 1980's Rabin was a Minister of Defence in several unity governments and enacted harsh measures to break the first Intifada.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Itzhak-Rabin   (787 words)

  
 Yitzhak Rabin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rabin resigned from office after two crises hit him: the arrival of four F-15 jets on Shabbat led to the breaking up of his coalition; and the exposure of a US Dollar bank account held by his wife Lea Rabin, an act forbidden at that time by Israeli currency regulators.
Prior to the signing of the accords, Rabin received a letter from PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat renouncing violence and officially recognizing Israel, and on the same day Rabin sent Arafat a letter officially recognizing the PLO on September 9, 1993.
On November 4, 1995, Rabin was shot by Yigal Amir, after attending a rally promoting the Oslo process at Tel Aviv's Kings of Israel Square (which is now the Yitzhak Rabin Square).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin   (852 words)

  
 Yitzhak Rabin Article, YitzhakRabin Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Rabin resigned from office after twocrises hit him: the arrival of four F-15 jets on Sabbath led to the breaking up of his coalition; and the exposure of an illegal dollar fund held by his wife.
Rabin was later hailedby many commentators for his resignation, who said that this was a sign of integrity and responsibility.
During the late 1980 's Rabin was a Minister of Defence in the unity government and operated harsh measure to break the first Intifada.
www.anoca.org /he/minister/yitzhak_rabin.html   (602 words)

  
 Search Tuna Report for Itzhak Rabin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Rabin was born in Jerusalem in British mandatory Palestine.
Rabin ousted Peres as Labor party leader in 1992 and led Labor to victory in the national elections, becoming prime minister and defense minister....
Rabin, Yitzhak Rabin ousted Peres as Labor party leader in 1992 and led Labor to victory in the national elections, becoming prime minister and defense minister....
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 Itzhak Rabin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
No, my friends, Itzhak Rabin spoke in the language of the people, which is the language of the body, of the mother, of the ocean.
Rabin was the first leader who didn't quote a vision, but talked like you and me. He was you and me, so when he was murdered, something in you died, something in me was murdered.
Itzhak Rabin was the first prime minister that was one of us.
www.geocities.com /Colosseum/1447/rabin1.html   (308 words)

  
 Yitzhak Rabin - Biography
Yitzhak Rabin was born in Jerusalem in 1922; he studied at the Kadoorie Agricultural College where he graduated with distinction.
Following the May 1977 elections, and until the formation of the National Unity Government in September 1984, Rabin served as a Knesset Member of the Labour Party in opposition and was a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
Yitzhak Rabin was elected chairman of the Israel Labour Party in its first nationwide primaries conducted in February 1992 and led the party to victory in the June 1992 Knesset elections.
nobelprize.org /peace/laureates/1994/rabin-bio.html   (691 words)

  
 Rabin center : vc > Family and Childhood
Yitzhak Rabin was born in Jerusalem on March 1, 1922.
When Yitzhak Rabin was a year old, the family moved first to Haifa and then to Tel Aviv.
Rabin’s parents were volunteer activists for most of their lives and the home had a permanent atmosphere of commitment to public service.
www.rabincenter.org.il /site/en/rabin.asp?pi=17   (841 words)

  
 in history - November 2nd - 8th - Learn English Magazine - British Council
Itzhak Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel, was assassinated by a fellow Jew as he left a vast peace rally in Tel Aviv on the evening of Nov. 4.
While Rabin's death raised immediate questions about the future of the Middle East peace process, his successor, Shimon Peres (hitherto Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister) vowed to continue the push for peace.
Rabin was shot twice at point-blank range as he was entering his car.
www.learnenglish.org.uk /magazine/keesings_rabin.html   (472 words)

  
 Letter From Israeli Students
Itzhak Rabin was a man that had a lot of courage in making peace.
Rabin was killed yesterday in a rally against violence and for peace.
Rabin was a great man that succeeded in bringing us many steps towards peace in the Middle East.
www.globalclassroom.org /students.html   (1066 words)

  
 Itzhak Rabin's Funeral Broadcast was not Accessible to the Deaf
Itzhak Rabin's Funeral Broadcast was not Accessible to the Deaf
First of all, I wish to present condolances to the Rabin family and everyone else who was touched by Itzhak Rabin's murder.
I knew that the crying young woman was Rabin's granddaughter, but it was only because I guessed - not because it was captioned on the TV screen.
www.zak.co.il /deaf-info/old/rabinfuneral.html   (458 words)

  
 Politics1
Rabin had to revoke his action and allow the Hamas terrorists to return to Israeli soil.
When Rabin deported the Hamas activists, he knew that the consequences of not taking severe actions could be dire.
Rabin's decision to deport the four hundred Hamas terrorists was firmly rooted in reason.
www.wjh.harvard.edu /~talben/politics1.htm   (746 words)

  
 Generation of Peace
A generation which enlisted in the military under the command of the then Chief of Staff, the late General Itzhak Rabin, on the eve of the Six Day War.
Itzhak Rabin, behind whom, and under whose command we went into battle three decades ago, and under whose heritage we choose today to advance in the way of peace.
This assumption is for me, and for many others, the heritage of Itzhak Rabin.
www.ariga.com /peacewatch/genpeace.htm   (782 words)

  
 Leadership and Conformity Part 3
Rabin had been an exceptional peacemaker among the Arab and Israeli nations for almost 50 years and had always had a leadership role in the development of his nation since its founding in 1948.
Yitzhak Rabin has been hailed by business and government experts worldwide as one of (if not) the greatest force(s) for peace in the Middle East.
Transformational leaders (like Itzhak Rabin) inspire followers to transcend their own self-interests for the good of the organization and these leaders have a profound and extraordinary effect on their followers.
pubpages.unh.edu /~ckb/leadership-part3.html   (3078 words)

  
 Search Results for Rabin - Encyclopædia Britannica
Rabin established greater control in this premiership than in his earlier one by keeping the defense portfolio to himself and appointing a negotiating team that reported to him rather than to Peres,...
In September 1995, Rabin, 'Arafat, and Peres, all newly named winners of the Nobel Prize for Peace, assembled again on the White House lawn to sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and Gaza...
Itzhak Rabin masterminded Israel's 1967 capture of the Sinai Peninsula.
www.britannica.com /search?query=Rabin&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT   (517 words)

  
 Balagan: 10/13/2002 - 10/19/2002
Today Israel remembers the anniversary of death of former prime-minister Itzhak Rabin, murdered in Tel Aviv in 1995.
There were ceremonies all over the country, in the radio there are only sad songs and in the TV, they only talk about it...
Rabin was the worst commander the Palmach has ever had.
balagan.blogspot.com /2002_10_13_balagan_archive.html   (1013 words)

  
 Oslo's Gift of "Peace"
Its only weakness is skirting round the motives prompting Itzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yossi Beilin to sign the Oslo agreements despite the Army's warnings of their probable disastrous consequences.
Against this background, the Rabin Government signed the Oslo accords and pushed them through the Knesset with Arab votes against the wishes of the Jewish population of the country and the majority of Jewish MKs.
He deftly utilized Rabin's assassination to promote Rabin's views in Israel, called Ehud Barak his "new toy" and must have been disappointed when his presidential proposals were torpedoed by Barak's insistence on a "final settlement." Had Arafat "accepted" them, Israel's survival would have been in serious doubt.
www.westerndefense.org /bulletins/Mar2-02.htm   (2242 words)

  
 Yitzhak Rabin --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
As prime minister of Israel in 1974–77 and 1992–95, Yitzhak Rabin led his country toward peace with its Palestinian and Arab neighbors.
Along with Shimon Peres, his foreign minister, and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) chairman Yasir 'Arafat, Rabin was awarded the Nobel prize for peace in 1994.
Rabin was born in Jerusalem on March 1, 1922.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9313119   (826 words)

  
 Books International - politicians
In 1947, Itzhak Shamir was arrested by the regime of the British Mandate and he was exiled to imprisonment in Eritrea.
In the shadow of the largest peace rally in Israel, Yitzhak Rabin walked into his car under the protection of the Secret Service.
The author explains the theory that the ideology of Gush Emunim, the religious settler movement is responsible for violence which climaxed in the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
www.booksinternational.com /politicians.cfm   (750 words)

  
 Oxford Today: Features Hilary 2001: The comatose peace process   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
Seven years had elapsed since Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sealed the historic compromise between their two nations at the White House, with Bill Clinton acting as Master of Ceremonies.
Shimon Peres followed Rabin down the pot-holed road to peace with the Palestinians, but his efforts were cut short by his electoral defeat in May 1996.
Having presented himself as Rabin’s disciple, as a soldier who turned from fighting the Arabs to peace-making, he lacked the vision, the political courage and the personal qualities that were necessary to follow through on the peace partnership with the Palestinians.
www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk /archive/0001/13_2/05.shtml   (1846 words)

  
 OrganFocus.com: An organist's life in Israel
There were films made about me, and I became so well known that people recognized me in the streets and stopped their cars to say "hello" to me. That's when I got a call from the office of then-Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin and was asked to perform at one of his meetings.
Yuval Rabin was born in Israel and studied with Elisabeth Roloff.
Yuval Rabin is also an excellent composer and he released a CD with Israeli organ music.
www.organfocus.com /members/krasnovsky/israel.php3   (1404 words)

  
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Roman Krasnovsky was born in Donetsk, Ukraine, in 1955.
Mourning Itzhak Rabin, an organ piece, was first performed on Krasnovsky's annual winter tour to Europe.
Larely, another compact disc was recorded at the Silbermann organ in Basel St. Peter church and at the Kuhn organ at the Lenzburg City Church (both in Switzerland).
www.geocities.com /vienna/strasse/2907/roman.html   (809 words)

  
 Rabin Coat of Arms
It is hard to say exactly when man first came to the lands that were to become the British Isles, but it can be said with certainty that Paleolithic tribes were flourishing there by 8000 BC.
Rabin Coat of Arms / Family Crest Mouse Pad
Rabin Surname History and Coat of Arms Framed
www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.c/qx/rabin-coat-arms.htm   (1181 words)

  
 Roman Krasnovsky
After a twenty years' hiatus in composing, the tragic assassination of the Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin brought him back to composition.
Krasnovsky's interpretation of Bach's Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 532 was chosen as the first piece of this disc, LC 98.103.
This was also the piece of music he had the privilege to perform in a private session to the Israeli Prime Minister Ytzhak Rabin in Jerusalem, one and a half year before the tragic death of Rabin.
www.concertartist.info /bios/krasnovsky.html   (807 words)

  
 Courage to Refuse - News
Itzhak Rabin is, for many Israelis, a symbol of the striving for peace.
Over the last few years, Rabin Memorial Day has become a day of despair, on which Israeli's morn not only an assassinated leader, but also the hope for a better future.
Lead by peace movements such as Courage to Refuse, the demonstrators found at last hope that one day soon the bloodshed will be over, and that the Israeli- Palestinian conflict will be resolved.
www.seruv.org.il /english/news_item.asp?msgid=58   (192 words)

  
 IN SQUARE OF TOLERANCE, UNESCO COMMEMORATES ANNIVERSARY OF ITZHAK RABIN’S DEATH {12 November 1997}   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
The ceremony was held at Organization headquarters in the Square of Tolerance which is dedicated to the late Israeli Prime Minister.
Daniel Janicot, Assistant Director-General for UNESCO’s Directorate, recalled that Mr Rabin had come only once to UNESCO, in 1994, "to receive the Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize," a prize he shared with his Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat.
Janicot re-read passages from Mr Rabin’s address on that occasion: "Handshakes on the White House lawn must be matched by handshakes exchanged between the inhabitants of Gaza and Ashkelon, Jericho and Maale-Adoumim.
www.unesco.org /op/eng/unescopress/97-216e.htm   (183 words)

  
 Physics Help and Math Help - Physics Forums - Israeli Civil War?
Murdering Rabin was a criminal act and stays a criminal act.
Rabin (whom I've met) was MURDERED BY PERES' gang for no longer just following their EU New World orders.
This was three months BEFORE Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination, and well before Raviv was exposed as an agent for the Shabak, whose particular assignment was to discredit the national religious camp.
www.physicsforums.com /printthread.php?t=9468&pp=40   (5118 words)

  
 The 1967 war
What Yitzak Rabin and Menachem Begin carried out, was nothing but total aggression by Israel.
Rabin was quoted in Le Monde, on February 29, 1968, as saying, "I do not think Nasser wanted war.
The two divisions he sent to the Sinai in May [1967] would not have been sufficient to launch an offensive against Israel.
judicial-inc.biz /War_Israel_1967.htm   (783 words)

  
 Itzhak Perlman --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
One of the finest violinists of his time, Israeli-born musician Itzhak Perlman delighted audiences and critics with his flawless virtuoso technique, rich tone, and expressive style.
Itzhak Perlman was born on Aug. 31, 1945, in Tel Aviv, Palestine…
His refinement of detail led many to regard him as one of the finest performers of the major violin repertoire of his time.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9332922?tocId=9332922   (555 words)

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