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  Reference for Yitzhak Rabin - Search.com
Yitzhak Rabin was born in Jerusalem in 1922 to Nehemiah and Rosa, two pioneers of the Third Aliyah.
Yitzhak Rabin's mother, Rosa Cohen, was born in 1890 in Mohilev in Belarus.
Rabin was rushed to the nearby Ichilov Hospital, where he died on the operating table of massive blood loss and a punctured lung.
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  Encyclopedia: Yitzhak Rabin
Rabin played a key role in peace negotiations between Israel and its Arab neighbors, and in 1993 he endorsed a historic peace agreement with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), providing for mutual recognition and a transition to Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
Yitzhak Rabin (Hebrew (The ancient Canaanitic language of the Hebrews that has been revived as the official language of Israel) יִצְחָק רַבִּין) (March 1, 1922 – November 4, 1995) was an Israeli (A native or inhabitant of Israel) politician (A person active in party politics) and military general (A general officer of the highest rank).
Rabin was born in Jerusalem (Capital and largest city of the modern state of Israel; a holy city for Jews and Christians and Muslims; was the capital of an ancient kingdom) in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine (additional info and facts about British Mandate of Palestine).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Yitzhak_Rabin   (594 words)

  
 Lea Rabin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lea (Leah) Rabin (April 8, 1928 in Königsberg, East Prussia,Germany — November 12, 2000 in Petach Tikva, Israel) was the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in 1995.
Yitzhak and Lea Rabin's grave on Mount Herzl.
However, a few years after her husband's death, she was diagnosed with lung cancer and she died in 2000 at the age of 72.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lea_Rabin   (197 words)

  
 Leah Rabin: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1933, she emigrated with her family to Palestine (A British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948) where she met her future husband Yitzhak Rabin at school.
Lea Rabin supported the peace efforts of her husband in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (additional info and facts about Israeli-Palestinian conflict) and worked further for a solution after his assassination.
However, a few years after her husband's death, she was diagnosed with cancer (Type genus of the family Cancridae) and died in 2000 at the age of 72.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/leah_rabin.htm   (102 words)

  
 UCLA Today: 990308 Rabin
In simple words heavy with emotion, Lea Rabin, widow of slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, shared with a rapt UCLA audience poignant memories of her husband's courageous role as a military leader and peacemaker.
Rabin's visit, we will now move forward in our efforts to establish a relationship with the Rabin center because we believe that the study of Israeli society, culture, politics and literature is really central to the mission of our own center," Myers said.
Despite the tragic death of her husband at the hands of a Jewish law student, Lea Rabin continues to remain committed to the prospect of peace, although she said the rift dividing the Jewish people over how this should be achieved has never been deeper.
www.today.ucla.edu /1999/990308rabin.html   (502 words)

  
 Lea Rabin   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lea Rabin (*April 28, 1928 in Königsberg, East Prussia, † November 12, 2000 in Jerusalem, Israel) was an Israeli politician and the wife of Yitzhak Rabin.
Lea Rabin supported the peace efforts of her husband in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and worked further for a solution after his assasination.
Only a few years later she got cancer and died at the age of 72.
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 Life
Rabin's parents were volunteer activists for most of their lives, and the home had a permanent atmosphere of commitment to public service.
Rabin was the deputy commander of this operation and he led the assault force that broke into the camp.
Rabin was deeply moved by the warmth of the demonstration as Israelis thronged to assure him of their love and trust.
www.dadalos.org /int/Vorbilder/Vorbilder/rabin/leben.htm   (3786 words)

  
 Transcript - Lea Rabin Forum - March 7, 1996   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Rabin, in the wake of the recent bombings, some Israelis appear to have despaired, and support for the Labor Party appears to be dwindling a bit among some sectors of the Israeli population.
Rabin, one of the most touching moments following the tragic assassination of your husband was a speech made by your granddaughter, and I think maybe against her will, she came to be a spokesperson for the younger generation, from our generation.
Rabin, for the terrible loss of your husband, and all of us grieve with the many people in Israel and around the world, for we have been deprived, utterly senselessly, of a formidable person and statesman.
www.ksg.harvard.edu /ifactory/ksgpress/www/ksg_news/transcripts/learabin.htm   (4504 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Rabin
Lawrence Rabiner is an electrical engineer working in the fields of digital signal processing and speech processing; in particular in digital signal processing for automatic speech recognition.
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 Leah Rabin, an act forbidden at that time by Israeli currency regulators.
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.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Rabin   (776 words)

  
 Yitzchak Rabin AKA Yitzhak Rabin
During Yitzchak Rabin’s term in office was the famour Operation Jonathan, in which the IDF rescued passengers of a plane hijacked by Palestinian terrorists.
Rabin resigned from office after two crises hit him: a scandal emanating from the delivery of four F-15 fighter jets to Israel on the Jewish Sabbath (Shabbat) led to the breaking up of his coalition; and the exposure of an illegal bank account held by his wife, Lea Rabin.
Also, Rabin's government was kept in office, and his concessions to the Palestinians passed in the Knesset, only through the support of Arab-Israeli parties including the Communist party.
www.yitzchakrabin.com   (891 words)

  
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Born in Konisberg, Germany, in 1928, Lea Schlossberg and her family immigrated to Palestine in 1933, shortly after Adolph Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany.
Rabin left office in 1977, served in the Knesset and became minister of defense in the National Unity government in 1984, and subsequently was voted into a second term as prime minister in 1992.
Rabin to the forefront of the contentious and controversial issue of peace in the Middle East.
www.bpcbakbusconf.com /99-rabin.htm   (370 words)

  
 Rice University | News & Media
Lea Rabin, widow of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, said during her visit to Rice that she believes the Middle East will see "the day of peace" that her husband worked tirelessly for until he was assassinated by an Israeli extremist in 1997.
She spoke at the dedication of the Yitzhak Rabin Fellow in Peace and Security in honor of Yitzhak Rabin at Rice's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy in late May. The endowed research position will be held by Uri Sagie, a former major general in the Israeli military and director of military intelligence.
Since her husband's death, Lea Rabin said the Middle East peace process has been "stuck somewhere in the middle of the road" and that the foundation of the peace process is today mired down in disrespect, misbelief and suspicion on the part of Arabs and Israelis.
www.media.rice.edu /media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=4257&SnID=2   (463 words)

  
 The Assassination of Rabin. A Psychoanalytic Approach
In a previous work (1) we interpreted Rabin’s assassination as a patricide, perpetrated by the Hebrews on the ground that the Israeli leader was committed to deliver to the enemy parts of the Promised Land, which is unconsciously perceived in Jewish psyche as the body of the Holy Mother.
As Lea Rabin expressed herself after the Likud Party won the elections on the 26 of May 1996, addressing the election activists of her own labourist party “Israel One”: “you should have squeezed every drop of political gain from my husband's murder!”.
Rabin had nothing in his personality that could have transformed him into a charismatic leader: he was not Ben Gurion and even not a Moshe Dayan, both of whom had the aloe of cultural heroes.
www.geocities.com /psychohistory2001/TheAssassinationofRabin.html   (6499 words)

  
 After the fall - Undefined Section
But for all of those in the region who supported Rabin's agenda-"one principle: land for peace," Lea Rabin called it-there also stood a loud faction of Israelis, vehemently opposed to Rabin and convinced he was betraying them by ceding holy portions of Jewish land to the enemy.
Lea Rabin maintained that such activities fostered an eruptive climate in Israel in 1995-a climate she believes was sanctioned by current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others from his Likud Party-and are as responsible for her husband's murder as the right-wing Zionist assassin who pumped the bullets into him.
Lea Rabin had rode unflaggingly by her husband's side since they met a half-century ago as members of the Palmach, an underground force fighting for an independent Jewish state; in 1948, they married during a cease-fire in the war for Israeli independence.
media.www.dukechronicle.com /media/storage/paper884/news/1997/09/23/UndefinedSection/After.The.Fall-1444993.shtml   (971 words)

  
 Chronicle editorial: Lea Rabin reminds Houstonians of what is now missing   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The occasion of Rabin's visit here was the dedication of the Isaac and Mildred Brochstein Fellow in Peace and Security at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.
Lea Rabin reminded Houstonians of the euphoria that followed the Oslo accords and of the surge of hope for a lasting peace in the region.
Rabin made two points that tend to go unacknowledged in the bickering over percentages of disputed territory: 1.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/editorial/98/06/05/peace-editorial_0-0.html   (320 words)

  
 Portrayals by Jeremy Sutton - Song for Peace
This portrait of Yitzhak Rabin is a combination of a freehand painting and a collage of symbolic images.
After Rabin was assasinated I saw the stark image of a bloodied song sheet with a bullet hole through it on the front page of the British newspaper, the European (I was in Brighton, England, for my sister's wedding).
I also dedicate this page to the memory of Lea Rabin who shared her husbands ideals and who sadly passed away a couple of years after I presented her with the print.
www.jeremysutton.com /rabin.html   (537 words)

  
 j. - Artist: `I want to liberate Torah'
When Aylon addressed a letter to "Lea Rabin, Israel" last September, inviting her to see the artwork she had dedicated to Yitzhak Rabin, she never figured she would soon be explaining to Israel's former First Lady a work that was born, in part, by his murder.
After receiving Aylon's letter, Rabin wrote back to her, saying that she would be in Baltimore when the show was on display, and that she wanted to see it.
Aylon was raised in the Orthodox community of Boro Park, Brooklyn, married a rabbi and raised her children in a community she felt alienated from as it grew, in her opinion, increasingly right-wing.
www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/6551/format/html/displaystory.html   (519 words)

  
 Leah Rabin Z"L 1928-2000
She was a youth leader in the Yishuv when she met the young Yitzhak Rabin, then a member of the Palmach, in 1944.
After Yitzhak Rabin left his position as IDF Chief of Staff and took up his diplomatic appointment in Washington, he went on to a political career.
Leah Rabin is considered to have exerted a great influence on her husband’s political advancement and policies.
www.jafi.org.il /education/actual/rabin/lea.html   (295 words)

  
 Gifts of Speech - Lea Rabin
Widow of Israel Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Yitzhak Rabin
On November 4th, at 11:15 p.m., it was announced to the world media, the Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Yitzhak Rabin, is dead.
Look at how far we have gone." There were President Mubarek, King Hussein, Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin sitting together, one next to another, with President Clinton, surrounded by foreign ministers of all the countries involved in the peace process.
gos.sbc.edu /r/learabin.html   (1464 words)

  
 Israel's death festival   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lea and myself, two Jewish Israeli women working in a Palestinian neighbourhood, were already a familiar part of the street's scene.
It took me a few seconds to realise he was conveying his sympathy for the death of the prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, who had been assassinated the night before by a rightwing radical.
Arafat got special permission to visit the bereaved widow, Lea Rabin, in Tel Aviv, and sat with her, tears in his eyes.
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 Rabin, Hussein, Arafat: three Middle East figures buried
The death of Rabin, assassinated on November 4 1995 by a Jewish extremist, unleashed an international wave of emotion.
At the signature of the Oslo peace accords on September 13, 1993, Rabin had exchanged a historic handshake with Arafat, the then leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO).
Rabin's family said it was touched by the gesture.
www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?ID=33480   (657 words)

  
 Rabin's grave desecrated. 04/04/2005. ABC News Online
One of the slogans written on Mr Rabin's grave in Jerusalem's Mount Herzl cemetery read "murderous dog", of a man who came to be hated by the extreme right for signing the Oslo autonomy accords with the Palestinians.
The tomb of his wife Lea Rabin, which lies just next to that of her husband, had also been desecrated with a similar slogan.
Political leaders have voiced fears that the atmosphere of incitement that marked the build-up to the killing of Mr Rabin is being replicated by opponents of the plan to pull Jewish settlers out of the occupied Gaza Strip.
www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200504/s1337320.htm   (311 words)

  
 Shunpiking Online Vol 02 Special Arafat Issue; Israel's death festival
Lea and myself, two Jewish Israeli women working in a Palestinian neighbourhood, were already a familiar part of the street's scene.
It took me a few seconds to realise he was conveying his sympathy for the death of the prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, who had been assassinated the night before by a rightwing radical.
Arafat got special permission to visit the bereaved widow, Lea Rabin, in Tel Aviv, and sat with her, tears in his eyes.
www.shunpiking.com /dop/arafat/deathfes.htm   (528 words)

  
 symposium   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Soldier, politician, and Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin was born in Jerusalem on March 22, the first Israeli Prime Minister to have been born on Israeli soil.
The peace process advance further that year, when talks between Rabin and King Hussein I of Jordan signed a peace treaty ending a state of was that had technically existed between their states since 1948.
Lea Rabin, Rabin's wife of 47 years, continues to carry on her husband's legacy through her charitable work in Israel including the Sheba Medical Center, the Tel-Aviv Museum and with autistic children.
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 1994 - Tributes to the memory of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
As a mark of respect to the memory of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin who was made a martyr to peace, I ask you to stand up and observe a minute's silence.
For the intent of the Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize, awarded that year jointly to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat, was to crown the efforts made by those three men to lead their peoples onto the path of recognition and reconciliation.
Yitzhak Rabin was considered 'Mr Security' by the majority of the people on both sides of the political spectrum: he was famous as a hero during Israel's War of Independence, as leading figure in the Palmach, and even more so as the Chief of Staff in the 1967 War and since then.
www.unesco.org /prixfhboigny/le_prix/laureats/1994/ang/tributes_rabin.htm   (2926 words)

  
 Library Welcomes Lea Rabin   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lea Rabin, widow of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, visited the Library on a recent trip to Boston.
Rabin's visit came at a time when her family and supporters are considering possible memorials for her husband.
Accompanied by architect Moshe Safde, she was particularly interested in hearing about the early planning for the Kennedy Library, including the selection of its architect I.M. Pei, and in touring the museum.
www.cs.umb.edu /~rwhealan/jfk/rabin.htm   (108 words)

  
 Rabin: Our Life, His Legacy - Books @ US MacLinks.net Apple Store   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Leah Rabin may not have written the most objective biography of the late prime minister, but certainly Rabin is intimate and heartfelt and full of timely reflections on Israel's past and future.
I must add, though, that the book is important to read because of her frank account of the night of Rabin's assassination in which she states how the SHABAK (Israel Secret Service) bundled her off and kept assuring her for a long time that the shooting "was not real" and that Yitzhak was all right.
Leah Rabin died 12th November 2000 of Cancer 5 years after the Prime Minister Rabin was assassinated.
maclinks.net /shop/us/books/details/0399142177.html   (793 words)

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