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  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 Leah Rabin, an act forbidden at that time by Israeli currency regulators.
Rabin died of massive blood loss and a punctured lung on the operating table at the nearby Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.
Yitzhak Rabin • Shimon Peres • Benjamin Netanyahu • Ehud Barak • Ariel Sharon • Ehud Olmert
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yitzhak_Rabin   (1552 words)

  
 Yitzhak Rabin
Yitzhak Rabin was born in Jerusalem, in March 1922.
Rabin returned to Jerusalem in the Spring of 1973, and became active in the Israel Labor Party.
Rabin was elected Chairman of the Party in February 1992, and in the June 1992 national elections he was elected Prime Minister.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/rabin.html   (482 words)

  
 Rabin
Yitzchak Rabin was born in Jerusalem on March 1, 1922, to Rosa and Nehemia Rabin, pioneers of the Third Aliyah.
Rabin established the IDF training doctrine, and coined the command slogan "Follow Me!" He developed the combat strategy based on movement and surprise, which was successfully implemented in the Six Day War.
Rabin was laid to rest at the age of 73, by a stunned and grieving nation, in the section for Great Men of the Nation at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, in the presence of many world leaders.
www.pmo.gov.il /PMOEng/Government/Memorial/PrimeMinisters/Rabin.htm   (927 words)

  
 Yitzchak Rabin AKA Yitzhak Rabin
Yitzchak Rabin (sometimes spelled Yitzhak Rabin) (יצחק רבין in Hebrew) (March 1, 1922 – November 4, 1995) was an Israeli politician and general.
Yitzchak Rabin was born in Jerusalem while it was occupied by the British (during the British Mandate of Palestine).
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.
www.yitzchakrabin.com   (891 words)

  
 "Rabin Memorial"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Yitzhak Rabin was born in Jerusalem on March 1, 1922.
Rabin rose through the ranks of the IDF, attaining the position of Chief of Staff in 1964.
Rabin negotiated a peace agreement with the PLO granting the Palestinians autonomy.
www.multied.com /Rabin.html   (232 words)

  
 Nurit Reshef:Yitzchak Rabin
Yizhak Rabin was born in Jerusalem in 1922.
Rabin's mother, Rosa Cohen, was a pioneer of the third Aliyah and a leader in the Hagganah.
Rabin was one of the leaders of the caravans bringing food and medical supplies to Jerusalem.
www.bus.ualberta.ca /yreshef/zionism/rabin.html   (674 words)

  
 Yitzhak Rabin
Assassinated Israeli statesman and general Yitzhak Rabin was born in Jerusalem on March 1, 1922.
After the resignation of Prime Minister Golda Meir in 1974, Rabin was called upon to fill the post, which he held until 1976 when he resigned over a scandal about his wife and an illegal foreign currency account.
Rabin negoitiated a peace agreement with the PLO granting the Palestinians autonomy.
www.multied.com /bio/people/Rabin.html   (292 words)

  
 Ceremony for Yitzchak Rabin Memorial Day from WUJS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Yitzchak Rabin served both as the Chief of Staff leading Israel to victory in the Six Day War and as Prime Minister twice, the first term in 1977 and the second from 1992 until his death six years ago.
Under Rabin, Israel made great steps in the path of peace between her and her neighbors including the famous handshake at the White House when the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993.
Yitzchak Rabin's Memorial Day is a permanent day for an educational soul-search, on which we shall have to ask ourselves, year after year, whether we persist and insist, throughout the entire year, to mend the tears, to listen to and respect one another.
www.wujs.org.il /activist/programmes/programmes/rabin_day/tekes.shtml   (3292 words)

  
 Prof. Gerald Steinberg
Rabin moved from a career in the IDF to Prime Minister in just nine years (1967 to 1976) on the basis of these solid security credentials.
Rabin also expelled hundreds of Hamas activists to Lebanon (a move that was costly, politically, and only served to enhance their image among radical Palestinians), and launched Operation Accountability against Hizbollah in Lebanon.
Yitzchak Rabin was a very determined (stubborn) individual, and did not readily admit to having erred.
faculty.biu.ac.il /~steing/conflict/oped/o291099.htm   (831 words)

  
 Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It was the image that captured the trauma of the assassination of Yitzchak Rabin: a bloodstained sheet of paper, removed from the slain prime minister’s shirt pocket, on which were printed the words of “Shir La’Shalom,” a Song for Peace.
Rabin was singing the lyrics just moments before he left the rally he was attending, walked down from the stage of Tel Aviv’s Malchei Yisrael Square and was gunned down by Yigal Amir.
Rabin’s memory is marked, among other places, in Tsur Yitzchak, a new community in central Israel; in Givat Rabin, a community in the Lower Galilee; and in scores of schools, streets and city squares.
www.thejewishweek.com /news/newscontent.php3?artid=11572   (1425 words)

  
 Outpost, December 1997, p. 8
Leah Rabin was widely denounced for her vanity and greed by the grandees of the Labor party.
As Defense Minister, Rabin offended the world's human rights groupies by threatening to "crush the bones" of participants in the Arab riots known as the "intifada." Although this threat enhanced his reputation for toughness, history disclosed that it was Rabin's spirit which was crushed by the riots.
Rabin, on the other hand was seen as tough and realistic- a general with no frivolous notions about Israel's enemies.
www.afsi.org /OUTPOST/97DEC/dec8.htm   (772 words)

  
 Mon, 13 Nov 1995: A settler reflects on Rabin's murder
Rabin's policies are using this period of national mourning to indict Mr.
Rabin that they could "spin like propellers"; when the settlers of Yesha mourned their losses to Arab terror they were called "cry babies"; when more were killed, Mr.
Rabin explained that he was responsible for the security of only 97% of the population; and after the Beit Lid bus attack, the entire Opposition was said to be in collaboration with the Hamas.
www.io.com /~jewishwb/iris/archives/482.html   (1122 words)

  
 Israpundit: Fallout of the Rabin Assassination--Oslo
In his article, "The Beatification of Yitzchak Rabin" Jonathan Rosenblum points out the the political fallout of the assassination of Yitzchak Rabin, which we are still living with: From the moment of his death, Rabin the symbol became far more...
Rabin by the end of 1995 was not popular: "While the November 4, 1995, pro-Oslo rally in Tel Aviv attracted a large crowd, Rabin was then trailing Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu in opinion polls, as had been the case throughout the prior year.
Rabin, the military man turned prime minister, endorsed the Oslo Accords with Yasir Arafat, pledging an independent state for the Palestinians in return for peace with Israel.
www.israpundit.com /archives/2005/11/in_his_article.php   (1500 words)

  
 Ariga: Religious Pluralism
It was authored by Rabbi Yitzchak Adlerstein, director of the Jewish Studies Institute, Yeshiva of Los Angeles and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and originally appeared last Monday in the Los Angeles Daily Journal, a trade paper of the legal profession.
Rabin's negotiations with the Palestinians posed an immediate threat to the lives of tens of thousands of Israelis.
Rabin was a rodef, and that it was a mitzvah to kill him.
www.ariga.com /pluralism/genesis.htm   (1340 words)

  
 Who killed Yitzchak Rabin
The target was the P.M. of Israel - Yitzchak Rabin.
Rabin was the Chief of Staff at the Israeli IDF and the ambassador in Washington.
Studied at a yeshiva and served in the army as a soldier in the "Golani" unit.
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Lobby/2880   (770 words)

  
 freedmanslife: A jahrzeit, a political death, and some hope
It's the 10th anniversary of the assassination of Yitzchak Rabin, the final knell for the occasionally illustrious political career of Shimon Peres, and the accidental killing of a 12 year old Palestinian boy called Ahmed Khatib.
Rabin tired of the constant bloodshed, just as Sharon and Begin, men of the Right, did before making their own concessions of previously sacrosanct land and principles.
Secondly, for Rabin not to have died in vain, we have to learn the lessons both of what he was attempting (dialogue with our enemies, however unpalatable) and of the reality of his actions (hope and work for a just and warm peace, but plan for your own stability and security as a priority).
www.freedmanslife.com /2005/11/jahrzeit-political-death-and-some-hope.html   (945 words)

  
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Attorney-General Menachem Mazuz said on Wednesday that there was "no proof" that the killer of Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 was driven to commit the murder because of incitement against the prime minister, and that the death was a direct result of the failure of his security guards to protect him.
Rabin was assassinated by ultranationalist Yigal Amir, who wanted to derail his interim peace talks with the Palestinians.
Moshe Debi, spokesman for the Yitzhak Rabin Center in Tel Aviv, said his organization works year-round to develop educational activities, and said the attorney general's office would do better to reinforce the message.
www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3125350,00.html   (565 words)

  
 The Kempler Video of Yitzhak Rabin's Assassination: Treachery at the top?
Barry Chamish, a veteran writer who is the most outspoken and document-laden of the dozens of Rabin murder "conspiracy theorists," says it is impossible that convicted killer Yigal Amir was the real assassin.
He would shoot at Yitzchak Rabin and be caught red-handed.
Rabin�s government would then have the justification to order a nation-wide crackdown on opponents of the peace process...
kemplervideo.blogspot.com /2006/04/treachery-at-top.html   (567 words)

  
 Yitzhak Rabin Murder Video
The Yitzhak Rabin murder video is the seven and a half minute video made by Roni Kempler while standing on the roof of a building overlooking the scene at the Kings of Israel Square during the assassination of Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin on November 4th, 1995 in Tel Aviv, Israel.
The Yitzhak Rabin murder video was used during the trial of convicted assassin Yigal Amir, the Shamgar Commision on the Yitzhak Rabin assassination and used for a brief period to convince the Israeli public that Yigal Amir did, in fact, commit the murder of Yitzhak Rabin.
Yitzhak Rabin is deliberately unprotected in the rear.
www.yigalamir.com /kempler_video.htm   (4671 words)

  
 Treachery at the top?
It states that Rabin was shot through the chest from the front at point-blank range, and that his spine was shattered, a claim backed that same evening by an operating room nurse, by Health Minister Efraim Sneh, and by the director of Ichilov Hospital.
Leah Rabin even went to visit him to thank him for trying to save her husband!” The clinic al report was sent to Chamish by Dr. David Chen, a surgeon at Kaplan Hospital in Rechovot, who became fascinated by Chamish’s investigation and has taken on his own project to track down related medical records.
Chamish suspects that Rabin’s assassination was ordered by the Prime Minister’s enemies at the highest levels of the Israeli government, under international pressure, because he had backtracked on the peace process.
www.gamla.org.il /english/article/2000/aug/rabin.htm   (3004 words)

  
 A Rodef and the Rabin Shooting
Accordingly, Yitzchak Rabin was the legitimate political leader of the Jewish nation in Israel, even though most observant Jews voted for his opponent in the election.
Thus, Prime Minister Rabin had the right to enact a policy that would endanger the country since he felt that it was in the best interest of the country to do so.
Consequently, it is a grievous error to categorize Yitzchak Rabin as a Rodef.
www.koltorah.org /ravj/rodef-rabin.htm   (1463 words)

  
 What we still have not learned from the Rabin assassination - Jewish Media Resources
Leah Rabin assured Israelis from her hospital bed that the events of the past month and a half could never have happened were her husband still alive because of his warm relationship with Yasser Arafat.
The commemoration, of course, is less about Rabin the flesh and blood man than about the symbol and what can be learned from the assassination.
The letter’s author unambiguously condemned the Rabin assassination, but nevertheless protested against the appropriation of the assassination to advance a particular political agenda.
www.jewishmediaresources.com /article/99   (846 words)

  
 Mail-Jewish Volume 22 Number 02
Rabin's incredible exploits on a national scale, I would find myself hard-pressed to bless someone that they should be like Mr.
Rabin asked him how he was to go, and Hollander replied that a government driver was waiting to take him.
Rabin then went down to the government car, shook the hand of the astonished driver, and thanked him warmly.
www.ottmall.com /mj_ht_arch/v22/mj_v22i02.html   (2247 words)

  
 Arutz Sheva - Israel National News
In an interview with IDF Radio on Sunday, Yitzchak Rabin's daughter, Dalia Rabin-Pilosoph, said that the Shamgar Commission left many questions unanswered and that she was not satisfied with its results.
She questions why her mother was driven away in a different car when Yitzchak Rabin was driven to the hospital.
Leah Rabin was standing on the steps nowhere near her husband when Amir shot the blanks and Damti stayed outside after the shot.
www.israelnn.com /news.php3?id=92972   (981 words)

  
 The beatification of Yitzchak Rabin - Jewish Media Resources
But far from celebrating Yitzchak Rabin's very considerable contributions to the modern state of Israel, November 5 commemorates only his assassination.
And Rabin himself did little to calm things down when he proclaimed himself the prime minister of "98% of Israelis" and told the settlers that they could "spin like propellers" for all he cared.
That firing proved that at least one of the lessons of the Rabin assassination — the danger inherent in suppressing political expression — had been stood on its head by those charged with conveying those lessons.
www.jewishmediaresources.com /article/896   (942 words)

  
 Prime Minister Ariel Sharons Address at the Memorial Service for Yitzchak Rabin and Leah Rabin zl At Mount Herzl ...
On that horrible night, three shots were fired into the unguarded back of Yitzchak Rabin and into the back of the entire nation.
We will remember Yitzchak Rabin; a soldier and a leader, loyal to his country and its security, a warrior and a builder of the protective power, a victorious commander, and a statesman who desired peace in his own way, albeit a way not shared by all.
And while we remember Yitzchak, we also remember Leah, his devoted wife, who since their youth and all along the way was his dedicated and loving companion, to the end.
www.pmo.gov.il /PMOEng/Archive/Speeches/2003/11/Speeches7561.htm   (616 words)

  
 THE CHURCH OF RABIN AND PEACE
We are a virtual church dedicated to the adoration of our slain master Yitzchak Rabin and his legacy.
We believe that Yitzchak Rabin blazed the path to peace for the State of Israel, and that those who disagreed with him are "the enemies of peace."
This is the Rabin Rap, Rabin Rap, Ra, Ra, Ra, Ra, Ra..........
church-of-rabin.tripod.com   (1004 words)

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