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

On This Day in 1995: Yitzhak Rabin assassinated by Jewish extremist Yigal Amir

Rabin, a former prime minister, IDF chief of staff and Israeli war hero, was assassinated during a pro-Oslo Accords rally in Tel Aviv.

NOVEMBER 4, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A memorial ceremony for former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, November 7, 2019

Yitzhak Rabin: Israeli security realist or idealist peacemaker? - opinion

Rabin’s assassination at the hands of an ultra-right Jewish fanatic, occurring immediately following a Tel Aviv peace rally, begat the image of the slain prime minster as a martyr for peace.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022ByMARK REGEV
YOUNGSTERS MARK the loss of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin on the third anniversary of his death in 1998 at the site of his assassination in Tel Aviv.

Grapevine November 2, 2022: Back to the balcony

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

NOVEMBER 2, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
CHIEF RABBI of Ukraine Moshe Reuven Azman with Nir Kimhi (center) and MK Nir Barkat.

Israel elections: Politicians enter final preparations as voting day nears

Labor on Saturday night held a rally in memory of former Labor leader and prime minister Yizhak Rabin, who was assassinated on November 4, 1995.

OCTOBER 29, 2022ByELIAV BREUER
A NEARLY-EMPTY Knesset plenum debates the dispersal of parliament, in June. In the upcoming election, be a strategic and principled voter, not a tactical and cynical one, says the writer.

Grapevine October 26, 2022: With a little help from his friends

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

OCTOBER 26, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
GRAYEVSKY TOOK one of the last photographs of late president Shimon Peres.

Israel Elections: Will Palestinian terror shape the 2022 vote's outcome?

NATIONAL AFFAIRS: The bottom line is: Palestinian terrorism may yet determine the outcome of the Israeli election in 2022, just as it did in 1996.

OCTOBER 21, 2022ByHERB KEINON
POLICE AND RESCUE personnel at the scene Wednesday night’s terror attack at the entrance to Ma’aleh Adumim.

Why a two-state solution won’t work - opinion

Another problem that the terminology of the two-state solution generates is the expectation that if the Palestinians’ grievances are fully addressed and resolved.

OCTOBER 9, 2022ByDORE GOLD
PRIME MINISTER Yair Lapid addresses the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York City, Sept. 22.

Grapevine October 2, 2022: Remembering Rabin

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

OCTOBER 2, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
A CLOSE LOOK at Yitzhak Rabin’s core diplomatic and defense views, above and beyond Oslo, does the late prime minister more justice.

Labor to hold Rabin memorial in Zion Square 3 days before elections

Labor intends to hold the Rabin memorial rally in Zion Square in Jerusalem, where an infamous anti-Rabin protest took place before his murder.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin

Generals in Israeli politics are no longer hot commodities - opinion

Perhaps voters appreciate that despite Israel’s pervasive security challenges, bravery and proficiency in battle do not in themselves provide the experience for successful national leadership.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022ByMARK REGEV
GADI EISENKOT waves at the launch of the National Unity Party election campaign, in Tel Aviv, earlier this month.