Word: slain
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...shift in Israel's Labor Party, newly installed Prime Minister Shimon Peres, 72, named a group of younger politicians to his Cabinet while retaining the key Defense Ministry post as his own. Ehud Barak, 53, the former Interior Minister, was appointed Foreign Minister, the job held by Peres under slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Yossi Beilin, 47, was named Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, a new position that will enable him to administer the peace with the Palestinians...
...huge memorial gathering in Tel Aviv's main square, renamed for the slain Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin's widow Leah vowed that "the silent majority" who support the Arab-Israeli peace process "will no longer be silent." Meanwhile Israeli authorities arrested Arik Schwartz, a soldier on active duty, and Margalit Har-Sheffey, a 20-year-old female university student, for suspected complicity in the assassination...
Students and faculty participated in a Kennedy School of Government forum yesterday, at which slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was scheduled to speak...
Just as the official mourning period for slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin ended, his apparent successor moved quickly to keep the peace process on track. Early this morning, Israeli troops lowered the Israeli flag over their military headquarters, got into 14 military vehicles and drove out of the West Bank town of Jenin. As they left, Palestinian police, followed by a jubilant crowd of Arabs, entered the building and raised the Palestinian flag. Jenin becomes the first town to gain autonomy under the agreement signed by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Rabin last September. In fact, Acting Prime Minister Shimon...
Israelis buried their slain prime minister on Monday and the world mourned. Dozens of leaders from across the globe gathered in Jerusalem to pay tribute to a man who sought to bring peace to a nation that has never known peace. As Israel grieved, her people continued to look inward, to try to find where the assassin, Yigal Amir, had nested in the nation's soul...