US EditionIsraelis Gather to Remember Slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin 30 Years After Assassination
Approximately 150,000 people attended the main rally reflecting on Rabin’s legacy amid ongoing political polarization and incitement, organizers said.
- On November 4, 1995, Yitzhak Rabin was shot dead after a Tel Aviv peace rally by right-wing extremist Yigal Amir, and around 150,000 people attended the main memorial at the Tel Aviv square.
- Analysts say polarization and public incitement helped create the conditions, linking the 1995 assassination to political polarization and some on the Israeli left accusing Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister, of veiled incitement during Oslo.
- Speakers at the remembrance events included opposition leader Yair Lapid, former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot, freed hostage Gadi Mozes, and Democrats chair Yair Golan; Eisenkot praised Rabin's civic responsibility while Lapid urged citizens to 'stand up against' danger.
- Yair Golan urged a renewed moral and democratic backbone, arguing responsibility is what Israel yearns for today and citing Yitzhak Rabin's leadership as an exemplar.
- Thirty years on, Yair Golan said, `The shots that killed Rabin still resonate today in every act of this government that works against its own people,` linking the assassination to ongoing nationalist extremism.
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O’NEILL: Rabin was tough, but he sought peace
It’s hard to believe it’s been 30 years since the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel on Nov. 4, 1995. The tragic irony is that Rabin was at a peace rally in Tel Aviv when he was shot by Yigal Amir, a law student at Bar Ilan University and a deranged Jewish nationalist. Amir was motivated by Rabin having made peace with Yasser Arafat of the PLO two years earlier and was in the process of relinquishing territory to the Palesti…
150,000 people took to the streets in Israel on weekends to commemorate Yitzhak Rabin. However, little has remained of the sober realism of his policy – the country has lost faith in compromises.
80,000 gather in Tel Aviv to honor Rabin 30 years after assassination
The speakers, all from the left side of the political spectrum, took turns vilifying the current government. By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News Eighty thousand people filled Rabin Square in Tel Aviv Saturday night to mark the 30th anniversary of the Nov. 4, 1995, assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on its Jewish date, at the place where he was murdered. This was the first time in five years that the commemoration took place there, a…
As a military member of the dialogue with the Palestinians, Yitzhak Rabin was killed two years after signing the Oslo accords. His death continues to haunt the peace camp in Israel, once again weakened by the war of 7 October, the longest in the country's history.
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