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...election did not always seem so tight. Late last fall, with Israel plagued by Palestinian terror attacks, polls showed Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and of the center-left Labor Party running behind Netanyahu of the nationalistic Likud. When Rabin was murdered in November by a right-wing assassin trying to sabotage the peace process, the country swung behind Labor and its new leader, Peres. Since then, subsequent terror strikes have eroded that edge to a few percentage points...
...Saturday had promised to be a quiet one. Most of the magazine was already put to bed, and our skeletal weekend crew was wrapping up the last details when jolting news arrived from Jerusalem at 2 p.m.: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin had been shot. That bulletin last November, which soon plunged Israel into mourning, sent the TIME staff into overdrive. Over the next 28 hours, correspondents on three continents pulled together the details of the assassination, while writers in New York City wove their dispatches into polished stories. It was a classic example of what is sometimes called group...
...Hope. Despite the rapidity of its printing (the epilogue is dated March 1996, and it was published on April 8) and its pamphlet length (180 undersized pages), the occasion on which this book seeks to capitalize is considerably more serious than the O.J. trial: it is the memoir of Yitzhak Rabin's granddaughter, the same one who spoke so movingly at his memorial service in November...
What do I fear about Peres?" concerned about answering at all, Yitzhak Rabin mulled the question carefully. This was in the mid-1980s, and Rabin was hardly a disinterested observer. He and Shimon Peres had been bitter Labor Party rivals throughout their careers. Both men were still angling to lead Israel, and Rabin was reluctant to offend needlessly. "O.K.," he finally said, "but this is for later. You'll talk to me first...
SENTENCED. YIGAL AMIR, 25; to life imprisonment; for the assassination of Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin; in Tel Aviv. The Jewish ultra-rightist brought new depths of meaning to the word unrepentant, grinning and yawning through a trial in which he freely admitted he shot Rabin to derail peace negotiations with the Palestinians. Amir's fellow extremists are taunting Rabin's successor, Shimon Peres, by chanting Amir's name...