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.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
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

This is the tragic story of 44 illegal immigrants – men, women, and children – who set out from Morocco to Israel in 1961 and met their deaths at sea.

|ByAVI NACHMANI
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

The Oslo Accords taught Israel a painful lesson: peace is not secured through documents alone. It is measured through sincerity, education, and genuine shifts in worldview. 

|ByDAVID BEN-BASAT
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

After Rabin’s death, American Jews needed an Israel they could rally behind. A day of mourning for a fractured nation didn’t fit the narrative.

|ByBARAK SELLA

Assassination attempt on Trump raises alarms over Netanyahu's safety - opinion

The recent assassination attempt on former President Trump highlights growing political violence. Amid Biden's controversial comments and media silence, similar threats may loom over Netanyahu.

JULY 25, 2024ByYARON SCHWARTZ
Israel's Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara listens on as she attends a cabinet meeting at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem on June 5, 2024.

This week in Jewish history

July 22, 1920: Keren Hayesod founded, July 24, 1922: League of Nations grants Britain mandate to administer Palestine.

JULY 19, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A POSTCARD honors Noble Prize winner Rosalyn Yalow.

Trump's surging popularity once again proves political assassinations backfire - opinion

Rabin’s funeral consecrated Oslo as his legacy, with then-US president Bill Clinton deeming him “a martyr for peace.” Donald Trump was lucky – the assassin missed.

JULY 17, 2024ByGIL TROY
Twenty-five thousands candles commemorate the 25th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, in Tel Aviv, in 2020. The tragedy consecrated Oslo as his legacy, with then US president Bill Clinton deeming him 'a martyr for peace,' says the writer.

Former finance minister Avraham ‘Beiga’ Shochat dies at 87

One of the last pillars of Rabin, Peres, and Barak's Labor party, Avraham 'Beigele' Shochat, passes at the age of 87.

FEBRUARY 28, 2024ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
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Former Israeli justice minister David Libai passes away at 89

Justice Minister Yariv Levin mourned Libai's death on Sunday: "Libai initiated throughout the years many laws that came to shape the Israeli rule of law."

DECEMBER 24, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Prof. David Libai seen on June 10, 2012

Grapevine, December 13 2023: Spreading the light

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

DECEMBER 13, 2023ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
REUVEN RIVLIN and Roni Mahadav Levin light Hanukkah candles.

After a Muslim family saved them during the Holocaust, a Jewish family returned the favor

“I wanted to tell a story about Jews and Muslims coexisting peacefully and happily, and helping one another, which is the narrative that we don’t really hear,” Sabina Vajrača said.

NOVEMBER 1, 2023BySHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA
Sabina Vajraca Bosnian-American film director poses for a picture in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina June 13, 2022. Picture taken June 13, 2022.

Israel-Hamas war: Be quiet and calm down before Israelis start arguing - opinion

While it is true that we have mostly put aside our differences during this war, I am afraid that the same hateful and divisive speech will reappear when the war is over.

OCTOBER 26, 2023ByAVRAHAM FISCHER
PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog addresses last year’s annual memorial ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem marking the anniversary of the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Settler goals can't coexist with a Jewish-majority democracy - opinion

The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin sent a message to the liberal front: Peace with your neighbors means war with your brothers.

OCTOBER 20, 2023BySAMUEL J. HYDE
PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shakes hands with Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin as US president Bill Clinton stands between them, after the signing of the Oslo Peace Accords at the White House on September 13, 1993.

Oslo, Judicial reform: Crises that shook Israel and feature Netanyahu - opinion

It is both trite and grotesque to point to the Rabin assassination as a personal warning to Benjamin Netanyahu today. But one cannot escape the sense that terrible things may yet happen

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023ByDAVID HAZONY
RIGHT-WING protesters face off against left-wing Peace Now activists on Oslo, outside PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s office at start of his meeting with US peace envoy Dennis Ross, March 1998.