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...TIME: Rabin had a No. 2 to follow him. Who's yours...
THOUGH THE ASSASSIN WHO KILLED YITZHAK RABIN was a stranger to me, I feel in some sense that I know him, know something of the ecstatic rage and false love that summoned him to try to become a savior of Israel...
...Yitzhak Rabin was murdered precisely because he violated the far right's most cherished assumption of Jewish separatism, dared to tempt the Jewish people with a life outside the fortress. Beginning with his 1992 Inaugural speech, he demanded that Israelis stop regarding themselves as a permanently ghettoized people and repudiate the biblical prophecy--or curse--that decreed that the Jews as a "people shall dwell alone and shall not be reckoned among the nations." By their presence, the dozens of foreign leaders who came as mourners to Rabin's funeral disproved that prophecy...
...rare break from family, the abiding interest of her life. Last year Alma and Colin insisted that Michael and his family move in with them--for six months--while the young couple's new house was being built. Last week, shortly after Yitzhak Rabin's assassination and just as Colin was making his big decision, Alma called her sister in Alabama. "It was nice to hear from her," says Barbara Greene. "We talked about the grandkids." Anything else? "Just the grandkids." Alma never brought up the decision, and Greene never asked. "It wasn't on her mind," Greene says...
...Alma ever bring up the Rabin assassination in conversation, says Michael. "She already knew the world was like that,'' he says. "This is a family that knows. The stories of my mother and grandfather sitting in the house with guns in their hands ready to shoot whoever came up the driveway are true. She grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. Little girls were blown up in churches for no reason...