Yitzhak Rabin

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 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.
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
THE FAMOUS handshake: Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin seals the deal with PLO leader Yasser Arafat as US president Bill Clinton admires his handiwork, at the White House upon the signing of the Oslo Accords, Sept. 13, 1993.

Palestinians must renounce culture of deception for real peace with Israel - opinion

The Oslo Accords taught Israel a painful lesson: peace is not secured through documents alone. It is measured through sincerity, education, and genuine shifts in worldview. 

|ByDAVID BEN-BASAT

Oslo, Judicial reform: Crises that shook Israel and feature Netanyahu - opinion

It is both trite and grotesque to point to the Rabin assassination as a personal warning to Benjamin Netanyahu today. But one cannot escape the sense that terrible things may yet happen

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023ByDAVID HAZONY
RIGHT-WING protesters face off against left-wing Peace Now activists on Oslo, outside PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s office at start of his meeting with US peace envoy Dennis Ross, March 1998.

Netanyahu to boycott Rabin memorial ceremony in first for prime minister - report

This will mark the first time a sitting prime minister has chosen not to attend the Rabin memorial ceremony. 

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a memorial ceremony for Yitzhak Rabin, in 2019. Similar to Netanyahu, Rabin didn’t support the establishment of a Palestinian state, rather of a ‘minus-state.’

Despite its failure Oslo process contributed to our national security - opinion

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023ByORI WERTMAN
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a memorial ceremony for Yitzhak Rabin, in 2019. Similar to Netanyahu, Rabin didn’t support the establishment of a Palestinian state, rather of a ‘minus-state.’

Jewish people have always desired peace with all their neighbors - opinion

Thousands of Israelis died because the risk of the Oslo Peace Accords didn’t pan out, and its failure unleashed waves of terror Israelis are still falling victims to until today.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023ByALIZA PILICHOWSKI
YITZHAK RABIN knew of the likely failure of the Oslo Accords and the high price failure could bring, but on the small chance it could work, couldn’t pass on the opportunity to make peace, says the writer.

Oslo Accords would make securing settlements impossible, IDF chief warned

Then PM Yitzhak Rabin acknowledged that the situation after the deal would be "less comfortable in terms of security."

AUGUST 29, 2023ByTZVI JOFFRE
Right-wing Jewish settlers in front of a burning barricade as they block a main road from the West Bank. December 2, 1993

Oslo protocols declassified: Rabin doubted Palestinian elections

Israel's national archives released the protocols of a 1993 government meeting on the Olso Accords, led by then prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.

AUGUST 29, 2023ByTZVI JOFFRE
THE 1993 OSLO Accords between Israel and the PLO were signed in Washington, with a beaming president Bill Clinton presiding over the White House ceremony

Rabin's PMO director: 'I am sure that Yigal Amir will get out of prison'

“The time has come to free the assassin Yigal Amir,” Shamai stated on Channel 14's “The Patriots” panel show on Sunday. 

AUGUST 1, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Rabin assassin, Yigal Amir.

Right-wing Israeli TV channel boots pundit for calling to free Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin

Strauss Group, one of Israel’s leading food manufacturers, told Channel 14 that it would pause its advertising due to “various hurtful expressions.”

AUGUST 1, 2023ByBEN SALES/JTA
Yigal Amir, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassin, appears before the Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem, Sept. 8, 2004.

One state or two: What will Israel's future look like?

One reason Israelis have been reluctant to embrace the one-state model is because of the debate over Israel’s future borders.

MAY 19, 2023ByDORE GOLD
Palestinian and Israeli flags overlook Dome of Rock and Western Wall

Grapevine April 28, 2023: Farewell but probably not goodbye

Katz had warm words for his successor Avi Mayer, who he is sure, will carry The Jerusalem Post to new heights.

APRIL 29, 2023ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
THE STAFF of ‘The Jerusalem Post’ bid farewell to Yaakov Katz (seated, second from right) on Independence Day.