Apple chose to launch her campaign around the anniversary of Rabin's assassination. (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
Thousands of people are expected to gather in Tel Aviv Saturday night for the memorial event marking the 19th anniversary — according to the Hebrew calendar — of the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.
The ceremony, titled “Returning to the square, restoring hope,” will be held at 19:30 pm at Rabin Square — as it is every year — where Rabin was shot dead on November 4, 1995, by right-wing extremist Yigal Amir. The site, originally called Malchei Yisrael Square, was renamed Rabin Square following the assassination.
A number of main streets in Tel Aviv were closed to traffic starting at 18:00 pm including Ibn Gabirol, Frishman, King David, Gordon, Malchei Yisrael, Ben Gurion, Bloch and Arlozorov.
Among the speakers invited to address the rally-goers were President Reuven Rivlin, former president Shimon Peres, Rabin’s son Yuval Rabin, and head of the Eshkol Regional Council Haim Yellin.
Yuval Rabin visits the memorial to his father, slain Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, in Tel Aviv, October 22, 2014 [photo credit: Flash90]High tech entrepreneur Yuval Rabin, 59, chairs the Israeli Peace Initiative, a grassroots organization launched in 2011 to prompt Israeli leaders to put forward a comprehensive counter-bid to the Arab Peace Initiative, proposed by Saudi Arabia in 2002 and endorsed by the Arab League five years later. Israeli Peace Initiative signatories include former Shin Bet chief and current Science Minister Yaakov Peri, former UN ambassador Danny Gillerman, and former Mossad director Danny Yatom.
Saturday’s event organizers said the underlying message at the rally would be to call on the Netanyahu government to lead Israel to a peace initiative.
Rabin served as Israel’s chief of staff during the Six Day War in 1967. He was later ambassador to the US, defense minister and twice prime minister.
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In 1994, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with then-foreign minister Shimon Peres and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat for his part in signing the Oslo Peace accords a year earlier.
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