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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 347

Yitzhak Rabin

President Isaac Herzog at a memorial service marking 27 years since the assassination of late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, held at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on November 6, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
October 22, 2023, 2:36 pm
Annual memorial for assassinated PM Rabin canceled due to war with Hamas
Organizers say that ‘at this difficult time,’ official ceremony, scheduled for next week in Jerusalem, will not take place
By ToI Staff
Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Benny Gantz. (Yonatan Sindel, David Cohen/Flash90)
September 19, 2023, 4:02 pm
‘Leadership failure’: Gantz rebukes Netanyahu for planning to skip Rabin memorial
Opposition MK says PM must ‘do the right thing’ and honor assassinated leader’s memory at Mount Herzl even if protests are likely; Labor head: ‘Ceremony more dignified without him’
By Michael Bachner
File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a memorial service marking 23 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem, on October 21, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)
September 19, 2023, 12:24 am
In first for sitting PM, Netanyahu expected to skip Rabin memorial at Mount Herzl
Unnamed sources close to premier call ceremony increasingly ‘political’; event has become battlefield between Netanyahu and Rabin family
By Michael Bachner
Host Yinon Magal on Channel 14's 'The Patriots' show on August 30, 2023. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 31, 2023, 1:17 pm
Right-wing pundit on Rabin murder: ‘When people are silenced, there is violence’
Channel 14’s Yinon Magal under fire for appearing to justify Yigal Amir’s motives in assassinating PM in 1995; last month, panelist on same show called for Amir’s release
By Michael Bachner
(L-R) Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, US President Bill Clinton, and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, at the Oslo Accords signing ceremony on September 13, 1993. (Wikipedia)
August 30, 2023, 1:58 pm
‘Difficult deal’: Declassified protocols show Oslo Accords okayed with marked wariness
30 years later, key cabinet quotes reveal Rabin, Peres feared Palestinians wouldn’t forgo terror, weren’t giving enough for Israeli concessions; Rabin foreshadowed own assassination
By Michael Bachner
View of the Strauss Elite candy factory in Nof Hagalil, northern Israel, April 28, 2022. (David Cohen/FLASH90)
July 31, 2023, 11:53 pm
Israeli food giant halts ads on Channel 14 after call to release Rabin assassin
Strauss cites ‘repeated hurtful comments’ made on right-wing channel, which dismissed Yigal Amir’s attorney Ari Shamai following his remarks
By ToI Staff
Lawyer Ari Shamai says Yigal Amir, assassin of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, should be released from prison, on a Channel 14 panel on July 30, 2023. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 31, 2023, 2:57 am
Panelist on right-wing TV calls to free Rabin assassin, to audience applause; is booted
Lawyer Ari Shamai says Yigal Amir, who is serving life term without possibility of parole, should be released; Channel 14 says he will no longer appear on network
By Michael Horovitz and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin speaks to a crowd of more than 100,000 Israelis at a peace rally in Tel Aviv on November 4, 1995. Rabin, 73, was assassinated minutes later. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)
July 3, 2023, 1:27 pm
Ex-Shin Bet heads accuse Netanyahu of lying about lead-up to Rabin assassination
Retired chiefs, hundreds of former agents in security service say premier’s autobiography promotes false conspiracy theories about the 1995 murder of his predecessor
By ToI Staff
A UN peacekeeper from the UNDOF force stands guard on a watch tower at the Quneitra Crossing between Syria and Israel on the Golan Heights, Friday, March 8, 2013 (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
June 26, 2023, 11:11 am
Dialogue of the deaf: Memos reveal vast gaps that sank ’90s Israel-Syria peace talks
Newly declassified reports by Israeli diplomat on negotiations show Damascus demanded commitment to full Israeli withdrawal from Golan, refused to promise diplomatic ties in return
By ToI Staff
Golda Meir, Israel's prime minister from 1983-1984, 1969-1974, as envisioned in Gavin Rain's artwork, part of the Prime Ministers in Perspective exhibit at Jerusalem's Biennale Gallery, April 23, 2023 through May 7, 2023. (Courtesy, Clive Hassel/Reproduction of Artists Works for Brandsmiths and Myron Zeidel)
April 24, 2023, 11:40 pm
Artist connects the dots for a new look at Israel’s leaders
Exhibit of 12 neo-pointillist portraits of prime ministers offers fresh perspectives for Israel’s 75th, at Jerusalem Biennale Gallery in old Shaare Zedek building
By Jessica Steinberg
Graffiti reading "Rabin is a terrorist, war criminal" scrawled on a memorial wall to the former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. (Israel Police)
April 19, 2023, 12:40 am
Man arrested for graffiti vandalism of Rabin memorial in Tel Aviv
Suspect, a resident of Bnei Brak, detained after slogan found on wall accusing assassinated former prime minister of being ‘a terrorist, war criminal’
By ToI Staff
Minister Aryeh Deri attends a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 15, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 20, 2023, 10:54 am
How 3 decades of Deri’s legal troubles now see Israeli judicial independence at risk
It was the Shas leader’s corruption imbroglio in 1993 that helped launch the right’s war on judicial activism, a war that now stands to cripple the courts
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Religious Zionism MK Itamar Ben Gvir, left, and adviser Chanamel Dorfman. (Screen capture/Channel 13; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 18, 2022, 7:35 pm
Top Ben Gvir aide listed as legal adviser for group that donates to Rabin assassin
After report revealed Chanamel Dorfman helped establish organization that bankrolls incarcerated Jewish terrorists, follow-up reveals that those assisted also include Yigal Amir
By ToI Staff
Head of the Otzma Yehudit party MK Itamar Ben Gvir at a ceremony honoring late Jewish extremist leader Rabbi Meir Kahane in Jerusalem on November 10, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
November 17, 2022, 8:33 am
School principal faces ministry probe for slamming Ben Gvir at Rabin memorial event
Education Ministry to summon Merav Schreiber for saying far-right leader’s potential appointment as public security minister will raise danger of another political assassination
By ToI Staff
Yigal Amir, the convicted assassin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, seen during a court hearing in Tel Aviv, November 1, 2007. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
November 8, 2022, 8:52 am
Rabin’s killer said Shin Bet ‘didn’t know anything’ about plot, refuting Smotrich
In uproar over far-right MK blaming security service for encouraging 1995 assassination, TV airs old clips from Yigal Amir probe in which he says Shin Bet ‘never could have known’
By ToI Staff
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