Eitan Haber, former aide who announced Rabin’s death, dies at 80

Eitan Haber, a former journalist and top political aide to slain prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, has died at the age of 80, according to Hebrew media reports.

Haber was the official who announced Rabin’s death by assassination on the night of November 4, 1995.

Eitan Haber, standing outside Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital, announces the death of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, Saturday, Nov 4, 1995. Rabin was gunned down by a Jewish extremist following a peace rally in central Tel Aviv earlier that evening. (AP PHOTo/Eyal Warshavsky)

 

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