Yitzhak Rabin

30 years after Netanyahu’s victory in 1996: How the comeback marvel changed Israel - opinion

Netanyahu’s victory in 1996 remains one of the greatest political comebacks in Israel.

|ByEITAN LASRI
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits with his arm around his wife Sara as she accompanies her husband on the podium during Netanyahu's election victory ceremony, on June 2, 1996.
A LIKUD supporter waves the party’s flag at a gathering, a show of grassroots loyalty which has long defined the movement, even as critics say its primaries have reshaped, and at times distorted, who rises within its ranks.

Middle Israel: How Likud’s primaries poisoned Israeli politics - opinion

The 18-year fencing match between Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin came to a sudden end, thanks to an invention Israel had never seen: primary elections. 

|ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
A VOTE on the death penalty for terrorists who murder Israeli civilians at the auditorium in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, March 30, 2026.

Israel's new death penalty law marks moral break, sparks discrimination fears, expert says

For Prof. Yoram Rabin, a criminal and constitutional law scholar and president of the College of Management Academic Studies, the law is both a moral rupture and a legally vulnerable one.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
Memorial to the victims on board the immigrants ship ‘Egoz,’ on Mount Herzl.

Jerusalem commemorates the ‘Egoz’ shipwreck disaster, 65 years later

This is the tragic story of 44 illegal immigrants – men, women, and children – who set out from Morocco to Israel in 1961 and met their deaths at sea.

|ByAVI NACHMANI

October 7 in the 'Post' newsroom: A Rabin assassination déjà vu

The frantic flow of information, the constant calls from reporters asking what they should do, and the tearing up of completed pages to make room for the horrendous news.

OCTOBER 6, 2024ByDAVID BRINN
THEN-PRIME MINISTER Yitzhak Rabin and then-foreign minister Shimon Peres attend a Labor Party meeting in 1993. Rabin had been kept in the dark by Peres about the talks in Oslo, the writer asserts.

The Oslo paradigm can restore Israel’s legitimacy - opinion

'I believe that there is much to be learned from the insights and achievements of the Rabin government some 30 years ago', the author says.

JULY 27, 2024BySTANLEY RINGLER
Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO head Yasser Arafat sign Oslo 2 maps in the White House on September 28, 1995, as Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, US president Bill Clinton, and Jordan’s King Hussein watch.

Assassination attempt on Trump raises alarms over Netanyahu's safety - opinion

The recent assassination attempt on former President Trump highlights growing political violence. Amid Biden's controversial comments and media silence, similar threats may loom over Netanyahu.

JULY 25, 2024ByYARON SCHWARTZ
Israel's Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara listens on as she attends a cabinet meeting at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem on June 5, 2024.

This week in Jewish history

July 22, 1920: Keren Hayesod founded, July 24, 1922: League of Nations grants Britain mandate to administer Palestine.

JULY 19, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A POSTCARD honors Noble Prize winner Rosalyn Yalow.

Trump's surging popularity once again proves political assassinations backfire - opinion

Rabin’s funeral consecrated Oslo as his legacy, with then-US president Bill Clinton deeming him “a martyr for peace.” Donald Trump was lucky – the assassin missed.

JULY 17, 2024ByGIL TROY
Twenty-five thousands candles commemorate the 25th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, in Tel Aviv, in 2020. The tragedy consecrated Oslo as his legacy, with then US president Bill Clinton deeming him 'a martyr for peace,' says the writer.

Former finance minister Avraham ‘Beiga’ Shochat dies at 87

One of the last pillars of Rabin, Peres, and Barak's Labor party, Avraham 'Beigele' Shochat, passes at the age of 87.

FEBRUARY 28, 2024ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
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Former Israeli justice minister David Libai passes away at 89

Justice Minister Yariv Levin mourned Libai's death on Sunday: "Libai initiated throughout the years many laws that came to shape the Israeli rule of law."

DECEMBER 24, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Prof. David Libai seen on June 10, 2012

Grapevine, December 13 2023: Spreading the light

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

DECEMBER 13, 2023ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
REUVEN RIVLIN and Roni Mahadav Levin light Hanukkah candles.

After a Muslim family saved them during the Holocaust, a Jewish family returned the favor

“I wanted to tell a story about Jews and Muslims coexisting peacefully and happily, and helping one another, which is the narrative that we don’t really hear,” Sabina Vajrača said.

NOVEMBER 1, 2023BySHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA
Sabina Vajraca Bosnian-American film director poses for a picture in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina June 13, 2022. Picture taken June 13, 2022.

Israel-Hamas war: Be quiet and calm down before Israelis start arguing - opinion

While it is true that we have mostly put aside our differences during this war, I am afraid that the same hateful and divisive speech will reappear when the war is over.

OCTOBER 26, 2023ByAVRAHAM FISCHER
PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog addresses last year’s annual memorial ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem marking the anniversary of the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.