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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.
November 4 – Israeli Prime Minister Rabin is assassinated by right-wing Israeli radical Yigal Amir at a peace rally in Tel Aviv. November 8 – After a petition by Alice Miller, the Israeli Supreme Court rules that the Air Force must open its pilot training course to women. [3] November 11 – Population Census: 5,548,523 inhabitants in Israel.
The film depicts the events leading up to the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on November 4, 1995. It follows and presents the stories of various characters on Rabin's last day, from the early morning hours until the moment of his death: the security agents, the political advisors, the religious extremists, the assassin, and his victim.
The Shamgar commission was the official Commission of Inquiry set up to investigate the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in late 1995. Its objective was to investigate the chain of events leading up to the assassination, and the reaction of the organization responsible for the safety of the prime minister.
First aired: August 21, 2007; This part covered, among others, a Jewish group that planned to blow up the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, in order to sabotage Israeli-Egyptian peace talks and the Jewish extremist Yigal Amir, who assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin.
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.