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The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin came immediately after an anti-violence rally in support of the Oslo peace process. [1]Before the rally, Rabin was disparaged personally by right-wing conservatives and Likud leaders who perceived the peace process as an attempt to forfeit the occupied territories and a capitulation to Israel's enemies.
Ehud Olmert (/ ˈ oʊ l m ər t,-m ɛər t /; [1] Hebrew: אֶהוּד אוֹלְמֶרְט, IPA: [eˈhud ˈolmeʁt] ⓘ; born 30 September 1945) is an Israeli politician and lawyer.He served as the 12th prime minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009 and before that as a cabinet minister from 1988 to 1992 and from 2003 to 2006.
He was appointed Prime Minister of Israel in 1974 after the resignation of Golda Meir. In his first term, Rabin signed the Sinai Interim Agreement and ordered the Entebbe raid. He resigned in 1977 in the wake of a financial scandal. Rabin was Israel's minister of defense for much of the 1980s, including during the outbreak of the First Intifada.
Kempler filmed the assassination from the top of the roof on the right. The Kempler video is a film made by Roni Kempler, an amateur photographer, who was present at the crime scene before and during the assassination of Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin on November 4, 1995.
Yigal Amir (Hebrew: יגאל עמיר; born May 31, 1970) [1] is an Israeli right-wing extremist who assassinated incumbent Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin on November 4, 1995, at the conclusion of a rally in Tel Aviv, Israel. At the time of the murder, he was a law student at Bar-Ilan University.
Yitzhak Rabin: A Biography is a 2004 two-part documentary film that tells the life story of the former Israeli Prime Minister and Nobel Laureate, Yitzhak Rabin. The documentary offers interviews with Rabin's fellow politicians and family members. Their insights along with historic film footage offers a history of modern Israel through Rabin's ...
The hit, ordered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, so enraged Jordan's then-King Hussein that he spoke of hanging the would-be killers and scrapping Jordan's peace treaty with Israel ...
Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day was created by the Israeli Knesset as part of the Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Law, passed in 1997, two years after his assassination. According to the law, Rabin Memorial Day shall be held annually on the twelfth day of Cheshvan, the day of Yitzhak Rabin's assassination, according to the Hebrew calendar (November 4, 1995, according to Gregorian calendar).