Yitzhak Rabin

Israel's new death penalty law marks moral break, sparks discrimination fears, expert says

For Prof. Yoram Rabin, a criminal and constitutional law scholar and president of the College of Management Academic Studies, the law is both a moral rupture and a legally vulnerable one.

A VOTE on the death penalty for terrorists who murder Israeli civilians at the auditorium in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, March 30, 2026.
Memorial to the victims on board the immigrants ship ‘Egoz,’ on Mount Herzl.

Jerusalem commemorates the ‘Egoz’ shipwreck disaster, 65 years later

 THE FAMOUS handshake: Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin seals the deal with PLO leader Yasser Arafat as US president Bill Clinton admires his handiwork, at the White House upon the signing of the Oslo Accords, Sept. 13, 1993.

Palestinians must renounce culture of deception for real peace with Israel - opinion

THEN-PRIME MINISTER Shimon Peres addresses a memorial event for slain prime minister Yitzhak Rabin while standing under a giant portrait of Rabin, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, December 1995. Within two years, the commemorations were gone, says the writer.

Rabin’s legacy matters more than ever, our amnesia is putting us at risk - opinion


Decades after Rabin assassination, Herzog warns there is 'mutual venom between Right and Left'

President Isaac Herzog opened the official commemoration ceremony for the 30 years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, held at the President's Residence.

Israeli President Issac Herzog at a memorial ceremony to commemorate the 30th anniversary of former Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin's assassination, at the president's residence in Jerusalem on November 3, 2025.

Peace and democracy: The legacy of Yitzhak Rabin - opinion

What will remain of Rabin’s heritage will depend on whether we manage to establish stable national unity governments in the future, rather than unstable, extreme, and relatively uniform ones.

RABIN FAMILY members sit in the Knesset VIP gallery, as the plenum holds a special session in 2022, marking the anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination. Hopefully, Israel’s future will continue to be determined by free elections, the writer affirms.

30 years since the Rabin assassination: What kind of country does Israel want to be? - opinion

This year, more than ever, Rabin Memorial Day is an invitation to a meaningful educational conversation about our collective responsibility.

A RALLY marking 30 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin takes place at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on Saturday night. This year, Rabin Memorial Day has an even deeper and more painful meaning, states the writer.

From Rabin to Tomer-Yerushalmi: Israel hasn’t learned from political violence - comment

The incitement against Tomer-Yerushalmi proves that in 30 years since Rabin's assassination, we have learned nothing.

A RALLY IN 2015 at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv marking 20 years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.

'Judaism is not extremism': Israelis remember prime minister Rabin 30 years after assassination

"Here we must say – this [extremism] is not Judaism. The extremists do not represent it," Opposition leader Yair Lapid said in his address at the memorial.

Israelis gather in Tel Aviv to commemorate 30 years since the assination of Yitzhak Rabin. November 1, 2025.

Gitai's 'Yitzhak Rabin: Chronicle of an Assasination' confronts amnesia around assasination

"Peace is made with very difficult enemies" doctrine takes the stage in director Amos Gitai’s powerful theatrical work Yitzhak Rabin: Chronicle of an Assassination

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1993 in Washington.

Yitzhak Rabin assassination 30 years on: A lesson on condemning intolerance - opinion

Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination was an attack on the very foundation of Judaism by an observant Jew, a product of Religious Zionism’s educational and religious institutions. 

Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin speaks at a rally in support of the Oslo Accords, prior to his assassination at Tel Aviv’s Kings of Israel Square (later renamed Rabin Square), Nov. 4, 1995.

Is a political assassination in Israel possible today? - opinion

Could a political assassination still occur in Israel today? Has the danger passed? Thirty years have gone by, full of fierce internal struggles, yet without an outbreak of extreme violence.

PEOPLE VISIT the memorial site for prime minister Yitzhak Rabin at the scene of his assassination in 1995, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, on November 4, 2024.

My Word: Remembering Israel's assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, 30 years on

Yitzhak Rabin’s legacy has been eroded over the past three decades, but the lesson about the dangers of political extremism must not be allowed to die.

A RALLY IN 2015 at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv marking 20 years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.

Grapevine October 31, 2025: Jolting memories

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

HILA RONEN, Israir’s deputy director of marketing and sales, Lithuanian Ambassador Audrus Bruzga, and MK Uri Maklev.