Yitzhak Rabin

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The public gathering was organized by volunteers in protest of the cancelation of the annual national memorial assembly.

As leaders, we must stand at the site of the conflict and demonstrate that there is a better way to move forward.

Thousands protested in the Bima Square in Tel Aviv against the government and its policies, while in Rabin Square a memorial service was held at the spot where Rabin was assassinated.

If tears were shed during the Knesset ceremony or the memorial at his graveside at Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl cemetery, they were likely to be tears of frustration. 

Forgetting the purpose of the event – to memorialize the slain premier – Yair Lapid proceeded, instead, to tout his motley coalition’s “victory.”

Yitzhak Rabin’s murder was supposed to have served as a cold-water-in-the-face wake-up call that how we relate to one another needs to drastically change. 

Bennett's words reminded me of something that Rabin himself said to me just two weeks before his death: The religious and secular need each other.

Colin Powell represented a unique breed of US supporters for Israel, who had an emotional understanding of what makes Israel unique and what the country means in historic terms for the Jewish people.

Rabin confidant Shimon Sheves said Netanyahu's decision not to attend the commemoration was because: “He is ashamed... he knows that the public who will be there abhor his actions."