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

Entebbe raid: A global counterterrorism game changer - opinion

The Israeli Defense Force's 1976 Entebbe raid has become the gold standard for rescue operations.

JULY 7, 2022ByMARK REGEV
PASSENGERS RESCUED in the Entebbe raid are welcomed home by loved ones at Ben-Gurion Airport in July 1976.

Israel unfreezes West Bank E1 plan, hearings for settler homes resume

The US has objected to the plan, which was first put forward when former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was in office.

JUNE 1, 2022ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
View of Route 1, the Maaleh Adumim-Jerusalem road, from the West Bank area known as E1, with Jerusalem's Mount Scopus seen on the horizon, on December 10, 2019.

'NOVEMBER': Theatrical production highlighting Rabin's assassination

Now, 27 years on, this shocking event is in danger of being forgotten.

MAY 19, 2022ByMORDECHAI BECK
The cast of NOVEMBER on stage in Jerusalem

Raising awareness for the widows of Israel

It’s time to be aware of widows and galvanize the unique support that they need.

MAY 19, 2022BySHARON ALTSHUL
Jackie Kennedy accompanies Leah Rabin during a visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1976.

Knesset members welcomed in Indonesia

MKs Avi Dichter (Likud) and Nira Shpak (Yesh Atid) led an Israeli delegation to an International Parliamentary Union conference in Bali, the first official Israeli visit in 30 years.

MARCH 21, 2022ByGIL HOFFMAN
MKs Avi Dichter and Nira Shpak greeted at the International Parliamentary Union conference in Indonesia, March 21, 2022.

What would Yitzhak Rabin think of Israel's 'new' Labor Party? - opinion

Rabin spoke of a Palestinian entity that would be “less than a state,” something Defense Minister Benny Gantz echoed at last month's Munich Security Conference.

MARCH 3, 2022ByMARK REGEV
LABOR PARTY leader and Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli speaks at a memorial ceremony for late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in November.

60% of Jewish Israelis: Israel should invest in its expatriates - survey

Some 86% of respondents believe that the Jewish State must invest in Hebrew language studies for Israeli children living abroad

FEBRUARY 1, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
WZO staff on mission visiting Israelis living abroad

Plans for the Golan: finally matching declarations with deeds

Yitzhak Rabin said that 'whoever thinks about leaving the Golan Heights will abandon Israel's security.'

DECEMBER 27, 2021ByHERB KEINON
The view from Mount Bental, overlooking the border with Syria in the Golan Heights, August 22, 2020

25 US Jewish organizations to hold youth-led event commemorating Rabin

A coalition of 25 Jewish US organizations will convene on Sunday in three cities for a hybrid face-to-face and online program commemorating the 26th Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day.

NOVEMBER 13, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Thousands gather at Rabin Square to commemorate 26 years since Yitzchak Rabin's assassination on November 4, 2021

Jewish terror as dangerous to Israel as Islamic terror - ex-Shin Bet official

SECURITY AFFAIRS: The former Shin Bet chief for combating Jewish terror discusses his new book on the Rabin assassination.

NOVEMBER 11, 2021ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
THE SHIN BET’S former counterterrorism head Hezi Kalo.