Former President Bill Clinton spoke about his relationship with former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the Oslo Accords at an Institute of Global Politics event Nov. 10, marking 30 years ...
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin speaks at a peace rally in Tel Aviv, Nov. 4, 1995. He was shot and killed by a Jewish extremist shortly after leaving the stage. (Israel Press and Photo Agency/Dan ...
The rally was ending. More than 100,000 people had gathered in Tel Aviv’s Kings of Israel Square on the evening of Nov. 4, 1995, their voices joining together as they sang songs of peace. The ...
Perhaps the most enduring phrase from the period following Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, 30 years ago this week, was then-President Bill Clinton’s valediction for his slain friend: “Shalom, haver” — ...
Nov. 4 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1879, James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio, patented the first cash register, known as "Ritty's Incorruptible Cashier." In 1922, British archaeologist Howard ...
It is hard for me to believe that 30 years have passed since Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated. On November 4, 1995, an Israeli far-right zealot fatally shot the prime minister at ...
(RNS) — Since the day he died, Israel has not raised up a prime minister quite like him. But the same poisonous mixture of religion, nationalism and fear that inspired his killing now animates ...
Thirty years ago, on November 4, 1995, I attended a pro-peace rally in Tel Aviv’s central square. It was a joyous, carnival-like atmosphere. “We have decided to give peace a chance — a peace that will ...
Recently, I read Ayelet Tsabari’s “Songs for the Brokenhearted.” It’s a novel about grief and love, mothers and daughters, and the complexities of Sephardi and Israeli identity — set, in part, in 1995 ...
Thirty years ago today, a far-right Israeli extremist shot and killed Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The World’s Host Marco Werman speaks with author Robert Malley about Rabin’s legacy, and why ...
A new play and a poetry collection insist on the relevance of a prime minister who died for championing peace. You had to have been born in the 1980s or earlier to have a firsthand memory of the night ...
Mourner holds newspaper clipping of Yitzhak Rabin. (Photo by Peter Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images) Three decades is a long time for a country to ponder the meaning of a single night. And yet ...