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Yitzhak Rabin

Then opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu looks out over a right-wing rally in Jerusalem's Zion Square in 1995. The slogan on the sign partially visible below him reads: 'The nation did not decide.' (screen capture: YouTube)
September 16, 2026, 5:17 pm
The writing is on the wall, again
The election campaign is turning toxic. The prime minister, who insists he played no role in the incitement that created the poisonous climate prior to the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, needs to urgently internalize the lessons of 1995
By David Horovitz
Rachel Rabin, the sister of late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, passed away on September 11, 2026 in an undated photo. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
September 11, 2026, 7:28 pm
Rachel Rabin, sister of slain PM Yitzhak Rabin and prominent kibbutz educator, dies at 101
Rabin, who lived on Kibbutz Manara along Lebanon for decades, was close to her brother before his assassination in 1995; ‘Till his last day, I felt he was protecting me, even from afar’
By ToI Staff
Itamar Ben Gvir seen holding a hood ornament taken from prime minister Yitzhak Rabin’s car, in an October 1995 interview. (Screen capture: YouTube/IBA)
September 9, 2026, 8:30 am
Yitzhak Rabin Center said to nix event over Ben Gvir’s planned speech
Far-right police minister sought to address conference organized by his ministry but center pushed back, reportedly over his threats in the lead-up to PM’s assassination in 1995
By ToI Staff
Gadi Eisenkot speaks during a rally marking 30 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on November 1, 2025. Rabin was assassinated on November 4, 1995 by a Jewish extremist during a pro-peace rally. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
August 29, 2026, 5:08 pm
The nightmare of the 1992 election is coming back to haunt Netanyahu
Allegations of stolen ballots in Likud’s primary highlight internal rot that, combined with the PM’s fear of right-wing splinter factions, mirrors the collapse of the party in 1992
By Shalom Yerushalmi
Assailants assault a 75-year-old man for taking down a banner calling for the release of Yigal Amir, the far-right assassin who killed Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, on July 28, 2026. (Screenshots/Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 3, 2026, 7:28 pm
Older man beaten for removing banner supporting Rabin’s killer, suffers brain bleed
Still no arrests a week after Ilan Manes, a former lieutenant colonel in the IDF, was assaulted by a gang of youths on camera near Mevasseret Zion
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
People rescued in the Entebbe raid and their relatives pose for a group photo at a 50th anniversary reunion of the operation, at the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation in Jaffa on June 29, 2026. (JTA)
July 4, 2026, 9:29 am
At Entebbe reunion, ex-hostages say Oct. 7 shattered their faith in Israel’s promise of rescue
Fifty years on, Israelis snatched by Palestinian terrorists to Uganda as children honor the paratrooper who was paralyzed in the audacious rescue operation
By Deborah Danan
A cheering crowd at Ben-Gurion Airport raises a soldier in the rescue squad that freed the hijacked hostages from Uganda earlier in the day, July 4, 1976. In the background is the C-130 transport plane which took part in the raid. The rescuer's face is obscured for security reasons. (AP Photo/Pool)
June 26, 2026, 6:00 am
‘Zero hour is coming’: How Israel went from negotiating over hostages to the daring raid at Entebbe
The Entebbe rescue operation, whose 50th anniversary is approaching, is the stuff of Israeli legend. A new trove of archival documents shows how the government took the fateful decision — despite the risks
By Ben Sales and Stav Levaton
A woman sits by a wall covered with graffiti memorializing Yitzhak Rabin during a rally in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Saturday, November 1, 2025, marking 30 years since his assassination. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
November 10, 2025, 5:58 am
Now in English, ‘Class of 95’ anthology brings elegies for Rabin to wider world
New edition of first-of-its-kind poetry collection memorializing prime minister aimed at galvanizing Diaspora Jews 30 years after his assassination, its editor says
By Jessica Steinberg
A crowd gathers at the Tel Aviv ceremony commemorating 30 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, November 1, 2025. (Stav Levaton/Times of Israel)
November 4, 2025, 5:21 pm
Yitzhak Rabin was killed 30 years ago this week. Has the Jewish world forgotten?
A new play, a book of poetry and numerous events seek to remind Jews in Israel and abroad how the death of a prime minister, killed while championing peace, is relevant today
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
US Vice President JD Vance speaks to the media as US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner stand next to him, in Kiryat Gat, Israel, October 21, 2025. (AP/Francisco Seco)
November 4, 2025, 2:21 pm
Daily Briefing Nov. 4: Day 760 – Are the US and allies readying to rule Gaza?
Editor David Horovitz on the scandal rocking the IDF’s MAG unit, new legislation that could hinder freedom of the press, and what brings hope 30 years after Rabin’s assassination
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and David Horovitz
Shimon Sheves. November 6, 2022. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
November 4, 2025, 8:49 am
Three decades on, a return to Rabin Square gives the slain premier’s right-hand man hope
Early November used to be very painful for Shimon Sheves, one of Yitzhak Rabin’s closest aides. But as young people honor his legacy and Trump pushes a ‘repackaged’ Oslo, things are looking up
By Tal Schneider
President Isaac Herzog speaks at a state memorial ceremony marking 30 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on November 3, 2025. (Noam Revkin Fenton/ Flash90)
November 3, 2025, 9:05 pm
At Rabin memorial ceremony, Herzog warns Israel ‘once again on the edge of an abyss’
President calls for country to stick to Trump’s Gaza deal, take opportunities for peace as was ‘Rabin’s vision’; late PM’s grandson calls for nation to push extremism to margins
By Nava Freiberg, Michael Horovitz and ToI Staff
A rally marking 30 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, with participants holding signs that read, 'Rabin was right,' near Rabin Square on November 1, 2025 (Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
November 3, 2025, 2:43 pm
Daily Briefing Nov. 3: Day 759 – Israel marks 30 years since Rabin’s death
Political correspondent Tal Schneider on the changes in the 30 years since Rabin’s assassination; reporter Sue Surkes discusses pollution in West Bank and Hadera
By Jessica Steinberg, Tal Schneider and Sue Surkes
Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin during an interview May 18, 1989, at the Tel Aviv Ministry of Defense office. (AP Photo/Anat Givon)
November 2, 2025, 4:12 pm
In newly released recordings, Rabin counsels to plan for peace but expect the unexpected
Marking 30 years since assassination, publication of archival audio shines light on fighter and peacemaker’s dual-track strategy, still strikingly relevant today
By Stav Levaton
The Democrats party leader Yair Golan speaks at a memorial rally marking the 30th anniversary of the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in Tel Aviv on November 1, 2025. The banner reads “Yes to Peace. No to Violence!” (Noam Amir / Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)
November 2, 2025, 1:57 am
‘The shots still resonate’: 150,000 mourn at protest rally 30 years after Rabin’s murder
Politicians and other speakers say divisive forces that motivated assassination of PM are still present; rally ends with ‘A Song for Peace,’ which Rabin sang before he was killed
By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff
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