Word: rabins
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Marking the first anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin last week, Israelis found themselves as bitterly at odds as ever over the exchange of land for peace. The intensity of their division was graphically illustrated by a shocking video clip from Hebron, played again and again on Israeli TV, showing a splash of boiling-hot tea contorting the face of Knesset member and prominent peace advocate Ya'el Dayan, daughter of war hero Moshe Dayan. According to eyewitnesses, she was approached by Yisrael Lederman, who asked, "Do you want tea?" Dayan responded, "Please." Then Lederman, later revealed...
...AVIV, Israel: With the Mideast peace process teetering, Israel commemorated the one-year anniversary of the assassination of one of the architects of the policy, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Marchers carried torches and signs declaring "Peace will avenge his blood" as they walked amid heavy security from the site of Rabin's shooting on the steps of city hall to the hospital where he died 90 minutes later. Rabin's assassination, at the hands of a nationalist Jew opposed to his peace efforts with the Arabs, occurred on November 4, but according to the Hebrew calendar the one-year anniversary...
...elected Prime Minister again as head of Israel's Labor Party in 1992. From that time until his death, Rabin pursued peace with several Arab nations. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts...
...Rabin's life ended with his assassination at the hands of a Jewish extremist who was opposed to Rabin's continued peace talks...
...honor Rabin as someone who devoted his whole life to the state of Israel," Goldstein said...