Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin (Hebrew: יצחק רבין, IPA: [jitsˈχak
ʁaˈbin] ( listen); 1 March 1922 – 4 November 1995) was
an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime
Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77 and 1992
until his assassination in 1995.
Rabin was born in
Jerusalem

Jerusalem to Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants and was
raised in a Labor Zionist household. He learned agriculture in school
and excelled as a student. He led a 27-year career as a soldier. As a
teenager he joined the Palmach, the commando force of the Yishuv. He
eventually rose through its ranks to become its chief of operations
during Israel's War of Independence. He joined the newly formed Israel
Defense Forces in late 1948 and continued to rise as a promising
officer. He helped shape the training doctrine of the IDF in the early
1950s, and led the IDF's
Operations Directorate from 1959 to 1963. He
was appointed Chief of the General Staff in 1964 and oversaw Israel's
victory in the 1967 Six-Day War.
Rabin served as Israel's ambassador to the
United States

United States from 1968 to
1973, during a period of deepening U.S.–
Israel

Israel ties. He was
appointed
Prime Minister of Israel

Prime Minister of Israel in 1974, after the resignation of
Golda Meir. In his first term, Rabin signed the Sinai Interim
Agreement and ordered the Entebbe raid. He resigned in 1977 in the
wake of a financial scandal. Rabin was Israel's minister of defense
for much of the 1980s, including during the outbreak of the First
Intifada.
In 1992, Rabin was re-elected as prime minister on a platform
embracing the Israeli–Palestinian peace process. He signed several
historic agreements with the Palestinian leadership as part of the
Oslo Accords. In 1994, Rabin won the
Nobel Peace Prize

Nobel Peace Prize together with
long-time political rival
Shimon Peres

Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat. Rabin also signed a peace treaty with
Jordan

Jordan in 1994. In
November 1995, he was assassinated by an extremist named Yigal Amir,
who opposed the terms of the Oslo Accords. Amir was arrested and
convicted of Rabin's murder; he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
Rabin was the first native-born prime minister of Israel, the only
prime minister to be assassinated and the second to die in office
after Levi Eshkol. Rabin has become a symbol of the
Israeli–Palestinian peace process.
Contents
1 Personal life
1.1 Family background
1.2 Early life and education
2 Marriage and family
3 Military career
3.1 Palmach
3.2 IDF service
4 Ambassador and Minister of Labour
5 First term as Prime Minister
6 Opposition
Knesset

Knesset member and Minister of Defense
7 Second term as Prime Minister
7.1 Economic and social reforms
7.2 Nobel Peace Prize
8 Assassination and aftermath
9 Commemoration
10 See also
11 Bibliography
12 References
13 External links
Personal life
Family background
Rabin was born at
Shaare Zedek Medical Center

Shaare Zedek Medical Center in
Jerusalem

Jerusalem on 1 March
1922, Mandatory Palestine, to Nehemiah (1886 – 1 December 1971) and
Rosa (née Cohen; 1890 – 12 November 1937) Rabin, immigrants of the
Third Aliyah, the third wave of Jewish immigration to Palestine from
Europe. Nehemiah was born Nehemiah Rubitzov in the shtetl Sydorovychi
near
Ivankiv

Ivankiv in the southern
Pale of Settlement
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Pale of Settlement (present-day
Ukraine).[1] His father Menachem died when he was a boy, and Nehemiah
worked to support his family from an early age. At the age of 18, he
emigrated to the United States, where he joined the
Poale Zion
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Poale Zion party
and changed his surname to Rabin. In 1917, Nehemiah Rabin went to
Mandatory Palestine

Mandatory Palestine with a group of volunteers from the Jewish Legion.
Yitzhak's mother, Rosa Cohen, was born in 1890 in
Mogilev
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Mogilev in Belarus.
Her father, a rabbi, opposed the Zionist movement and sent Rosa to a
Christian high school for girls in Gomel, which gave her a broad
general education. Early on, Rosa took an interest in political and
social causes. In 1919, she traveled to Palestine on the steamship
Ruslan. After working on a kibbutz on the shores of the Sea of
Galilee, she moved to Jerusalem.[2]
Rabin's parents met in
Jerusalem

Jerusalem during the 1920 Nebi Musa riots.[3]
They moved to Tel Aviv's Chlenov Street near
Jaffa

Jaffa in 1923. Nehemiah
became a worker for the Palestine Electric Corporation and Rosa was an
accountant and local activist. She became a member of the Tel Aviv
City Council.[4] The family moved again in 1931 to a two-room
apartment on Hamagid Street in Tel Aviv.[5]
Early life and education
External video
Booknotes interview with Rabin's granddaughter Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof
on her book about Rabin, In the Name of Sorrow and Hope, May 26, 1996,
C-SPAN
Rabin grew up in Tel Aviv, where the family relocated when he was one
year old. He enrolled in the
Tel Aviv
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Tel Aviv Beit Hinuch Leyaldei Ovdim
(בית חינוך לילדי עובדים, "School House for Workers'
Children") in 1928 and completed his studies there in 1935. The school
taught the children agriculture as well as Zionism.[6] Rabin mostly
received good marks in school, but he was so shy that few people knew
he was intelligent.[7]
In 1935, Rabin enrolled at an agricultural school on kibbutz Givat
Hashlosha that his mother founded. It was here in 1936 at the age of
14 that Rabin joined the
Haganah

Haganah and received his first military
training, learning how to use a pistol and stand guard. He joined a
socialist-Zionist youth movement, HaNoar HaOved.[8]
In 1937, he enrolled at the two-year Kadoorie Agricultural High
School. He excelled in a number of agriculture-related subjects but
disliked studying English language—the language of the British
"enemy."[9][10] He originally aspired to be an irrigation engineer,
but his interest in military affairs intensified in 1938, when the
ongoing Arab revolt worsened. A young
Haganah

Haganah sergeant named Yigal
Allon, later a general in the IDF and prominent politician, trained
Rabin and others at Kadoorie. Rabin finished at Kadoorie in August
1940.[11] For part of 1939, the British closed Kadoorie, and Rabin
joined Allon as a military policeman at
Kibbutz

Kibbutz
Ginosar

Ginosar until the
school re-opened.[12] When he finished school, Rabin considered
studying irrigation engineering on scholarship at the University of
California, Berkeley, although he ultimately decided to stay and fight
in Palestine.[13]
Marriage and family
Rabin at home with his wife, grandson, daughter, then son-in-law, and
two of his granddaughters in 1992.
Rabin married Leah Schlossberg during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
Leah Rabin

Leah Rabin was working at the time as a reporter for a Palmach
newspaper. They had two children, Dalia (born 19 March 1950) and Yuval
(born 18 June 1955). Rabin was non-religious; according to American
diplomat Dennis Ross, Rabin was the most secular Jew he had met in
Israel.[14]
Military career
Palmach
In 1941, during his practical training at kibbutz Ramat Yohanan, Rabin
joined the newly formed
Palmach

Palmach section of the Haganah, under the
influence of Yigal Allon. Rabin could not yet operate a machine gun,
drive a car, or ride a motorcycle, but
Moshe Dayan

Moshe Dayan accepted the new
recruit.[15] The first operation he participated in was assisting the
allied invasion of Lebanon, then held by
Vichy French
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Vichy French forces (the same
operation in which Dayan lost his eye) in June–July 1941.[16] Allon
continued to train the young
Palmach

Palmach forces.
As a Palmachnik, Rabin and his men had to lie low to avoid arousing
inquiry from the British administration. They spent most of their time
farming, training secretly part-time.[17] They wore no uniforms and
received no public recognition during this time.[18] In 1943, Rabin
took command of a platoon at Kfar Giladi. He trained his men in modern
tactics and how to conduct lightning attacks.[19]
After the end of the war the relationship between the
Palmach

Palmach and the
British authorities became strained, especially with respect to the
treatment of Jewish immigration. In October 1945 Rabin was in charge
of planning and later executing an operation for the release of
interned immigrants from the
Atlit detainee camp

Atlit detainee camp for Jewish illegal
immigrants. In the Black Shabbat, a massive British operation against
the leaders of the Jewish Establishment in the British Mandate of
Palestine, Rabin was arrested and detained for five months. After his
release he became the commander of the second
Palmach

Palmach battalion and
rose to the position of Chief Operations Officer of the
Palmach

Palmach in
October 1947.
IDF service
Yitzhak Rabin, commander of the Harel Brigade, c. 1948
Rabin and
Yigal Allon

Yigal Allon (1949)
The Israeli delegation to the
1949 Armistice Agreements

1949 Armistice Agreements talks. Left to
right: Commanders Yehoshafat Harkabi, Aryeh Simon, Yigael Yadin, and
Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin (1949)
During the
1948 Arab–Israeli War
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1948 Arab–Israeli War Rabin directed Israeli operations
in
Jerusalem

Jerusalem and fought the Egyptian army in the Negev. During the
beginning of the war he was the commander of the Harel Brigade, which
fought on the road to
Jerusalem

Jerusalem from the coastal plain, including the
Israeli "Burma Road," as well as many battles in Jerusalem, such as
securing the southern side of the city by recapturing kibbutz Ramat
Rachel.
During the first truce he led the Ben Gurion ordered attack by the IDF
against the
Irgun

Irgun on the beach of
Tel Aviv
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Tel Aviv as part of the Altalena
Affair.
In the following period he was the deputy commander of Operation
Danny, the largest scale operation to that point, which involved four
IDF brigades. The cities of
Ramle

Ramle and Lydda were captured, as well as
the major airport in Lydda, as part of the operation. Following the
capture of the two towns there was an exodus of their Arab population.
Rabin signed the expulsion order, which included the following:
"... 1. The inhabitants of Lydda must be expelled quickly without
attention to age. ... 2. Implement immediately."[20] Later, Rabin was
chief of operations for the Southern Front and participated in the
major battles ending the fighting there, including
Operation Yoav

Operation Yoav and
Operation Horev.
In the beginning of 1949 he was a member of the Israeli delegation to
the armistice talks with
Egypt

Egypt that were held on the island of Rhodes.
The result of the negotiations were the 1949 Armistice Agreements,
which ended the official hostilities of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
Following the demobilization at the end of the war he was the most
senior (former) member of the
Palmach

Palmach that remained in the IDF.
Like many
Palmach

Palmach leaders, Rabin was politically aligned with the left
wing pro-Soviet
Ahdut HaAvoda party and later Mapam. These officers
were distrusted by Prime Minister
David Ben Gurion

David Ben Gurion and several
resigned from the army in 1953 after a series of confrontations. Those
members of
Mapam

Mapam who remained, such as Rabin,
Haim Bar-Lev and David
Elazar, had to endure several years in staff or training posts before
resuming their careers.[21]
Rabin headed Israel's Northern Command from 1956 to 1959.[22] In 1964
he was appointed chief of staff of the
Israel

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) by
Levi Eshkol, who had replaced
David Ben-Gurion

David Ben-Gurion as
Prime-Minister

Prime-Minister and
Minister of Defence. Since Eshkol did not have much military
experience and trusted Rabin's judgement, he had a very free hand.
According to the memoirs of Eshkol's military secretary, Eshkol
followed Rabin "with closed eyes".[23]
Under his command, the IDF achieved victory over Egypt, Syria and
Jordan

Jordan in the
Six-Day War

Six-Day War in 1967. After the Old City of
Jerusalem

Jerusalem was
captured by the IDF, Rabin was among the first to visit the Old City,
and delivered a famous speech on Mount Scopus, at the Hebrew
University. In the days leading up to the war, it was reported that
Rabin suffered a nervous breakdown and was unable to function.[24]
After this short hiatus, he resumed full command over the IDF.
Ambassador and Minister of Labour
Following his retirement from the IDF he became ambassador to the
United States

United States beginning in 1968, serving for five years. In this
period the US became the major weapon supplier of
Israel

Israel and in
particular he managed to get the embargo on the
F-4 Phantom

F-4 Phantom fighter
jets lifted. During the 1973
Yom Kippur War

Yom Kippur War he served in no official
capacity and in the elections held at the end of 1973 he was elected
to the
Knesset

Knesset as a member of the Alignment. He was appointed Israeli
Minister of Labour in March 1974 in Golda Meir's short-lived
government.[25] While serving as ambassador, Rabin met and formed a
relationship with Menachem M. Schneerson.[26]
First term as Prime Minister
Following Golda Meir's resignation in April 1974, Rabin was elected
party leader, after he defeated Shimon Peres. The rivalry between
these two Labour leaders remained fierce and they competed several
times in the next two decades for the leadership role, and even for
who deserved credit for government achievements.[27] Rabin succeeded
Golda Meir

Golda Meir as
Prime Minister of Israel

Prime Minister of Israel on 3 June 1974. This was a
coalition government, including Ratz, the Independent Liberals,
Progress and Development and the Arab List for Bedouins and Villagers.
This arrangement, with a bare parliamentary majority, held for a few
months and was one of the few periods in Israel's history where the
religious parties were not part of the coalition. The National
Religious Party joined the coalition on 30 October 1974 and Ratz left
on 6 November.
Play media
Short video about
Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin from the Israeli News Company
In foreign policy, the major development at the beginning of Rabin's
term was the
Sinai Interim Agreement between
Israel

Israel and Egypt, signed
on 1 September 1975. Both countries declared that the conflict between
them and in the Middle East shall not be resolved by military force
but by peaceful means.[28] This agreement followed Henry Kissinger's
shuttle diplomacy and a threatened "reassessment" of the United
States' regional policy and its relations with Israel. Rabin notes it
was "an innocent-sounding term that heralded one of the worst periods
in American–Israeli relations."[29] But the agreement was an
important step towards the
Camp David Accords

Camp David Accords of 1978 and the peace
treaty with
Egypt

Egypt signed in 1979.
Operation Entebbe

Operation Entebbe was perhaps the most dramatic event during Rabin's
first term of office. On his orders, the IDF performed a long-range
undercover raid to rescue passengers of an airliner hijacked by
militants belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine's
Wadie Haddad faction and the German Revolutionary Cells
(RZ), who had been brought to Idi Amin's Uganda.[30] The operation was
generally considered a tremendous success, and its spectacular
character has made it the subject of much continued comment and study.
Towards the end of 1976 his coalition government with the religious
parties suffered a crisis: A motion of no confidence had been brought
by
Agudat Yisrael

Agudat Yisrael over a breach of the Sabbath on an Israeli Air Force
base when four
F-15

F-15 jets were delivered from the US and the National
Religious Party had abstained. Rabin dissolved his government and
decided on new elections, which were to be held in May 1977.
Following the March 1977 meeting between Rabin and U.S. President
Jimmy Carter, Rabin publicly announced that the U.S. supported the
Israeli idea of defensible borders; Carter then issued a
clarification. A "fallout" in U.S./Israeli relations ensued. It is
thought that the fallout contributed to the Israeli Labor Party's
defeat in the May 1977 elections.[31] On 15 March 1977, Haaretz
journalist Dan Margalit revealed that a joint dollar account in the
names of Yitzhak and Leah Rabin, opened in a Washington, D.C., bank
during Rabin's term of office as
Israel

Israel ambassador (1968–73), was
still open, in breach of Israeli law.[32] According to Israeli
currency regulations at the time, it was illegal for citizens to
maintain foreign bank accounts without prior authorization. Rabin
resigned on 8 April 1977, following the revelation by Maariv
journalist S. Isaac Mekel that the Rabins held two accounts in
Washington, not one, containing $10,000, and that a Finance Ministry
administrative penalty committee fined them IL150,000.[33] Rabin
withdrew from the party leadership and candidacy for prime minister.
Opposition
Knesset

Knesset member and Minister of Defense
Following his resignation and Labour Party defeat at the elections,
Likud's
Menachem Begin

Menachem Begin was elected in 1977. Until 1984 Rabin had been
a member of
Knesset

Knesset and had sat on the Foreign Affairs and Defense
Committee. From 1984 to 1990, he served as Minister of Defense in
several national unity governments led by prime ministers Yitzhak
Shamir and Shimon Peres. When Rabin came to office, Israeli troops
were still deep in Lebanon. Rabin ordered their withdrawal to a
"Security Zone" on the Lebanese side of the border. The South Lebanon
Army was active in this zone, along with the Israeli Defence Forces.
When the first Intifada broke out, Rabin adopted harsh measures to
stop the demonstrations, even authorizing the use of "Force, might and
beatings," on the demonstrators.[34][35] Rabin the "bone breaker" was
used as an International image.[36] The combination of the failure of
the "Iron Fist" policy, Israel's deteriorating international image,
and
Jordan

Jordan cutting legal and administrative ties to the
West Bank

West Bank with
the U.S.'s recognition of the
PLO
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PLO as the representative of the
Palestinian people

Palestinian people forced Rabin to seek an end to the violence through
negotiation and dialogue with the PLO.[36][37] From 1990 to 1992,
Rabin again served as a
Knesset

Knesset member and sat on the Foreign Affairs
and Defense Committee.
Second term as Prime Minister
Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton watches Jordan's
King Hussein

King Hussein (left) and Israeli Prime
Minister
Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin (right) sign the Israel–
Jordan

Jordan peace treaty
Yitzhak Rabin, Bill Clinton, and
Yasser Arafat

Yasser Arafat during the Oslo Accords
on 13 September 1993
Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin shaking hands with Jordan's
King Hussein

King Hussein after signing a
peace treaty between the two countries in 1994.
In 1992 Rabin was elected as chairman of the Labor Party, winning
against Shimon Peres. In the elections that year his party, strongly
focusing on the popularity of its leader, managed to win a clear
victory over the
Likud

Likud of incumbent Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir.
However, the left-wing bloc in the
Knesset

Knesset only won an overall narrow
majority, facilitated by the disqualification of small nationalist
parties that did not manage to pass the electoral threshold. Rabin
formed the first Labor-led government in fifteen years, supported by a
coalition with Meretz, a left wing party, and Shas, a Mizrahi
ultra-orthodox religious party.
On 25 July 1993, after
Hezbollah

Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel,
Rabin authorized a week-long military operation in Lebanon.[38] Rabin
played a leading role in the signing of the Oslo Accords, which
created the
Palestinian National Authority

Palestinian National Authority and granted it partial
control over parts of the
Gaza Strip

Gaza Strip and West Bank. Prior to the
signing of the accords, Rabin received a letter from
PLO
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PLO chairman
Yasser Arafat

Yasser Arafat renouncing violence and officially recognizing Israel,
and on the same day, 9 September 1993, Rabin sent Arafat a letter
officially recognizing the PLO.[39]
After the announcement of the
Oslo Accords

Oslo Accords there were many protest
demonstrations in
Israel

Israel objecting to the Accords. As these protests
dragged on, Rabin insisted that as long as he had a majority in the
Knesset

Knesset he would ignore the protests and the protesters. In this
context he said, "they (the protesters) can spin around and around
like propellers"[40] but he would continue on the path of the Oslo
Accords. Rabin's parliamentary majority rested on non-coalition member
Arab support.[41] Rabin also denied the right of American Jews to
object to his plan for peace, calling any such dissent "chutzpah."[42]
The Oslo agreement was also opposed by
Hamas

Hamas and other Palestinian
factions, which launched suicide bombings at Israel.[43]
After the historical handshake with Yasser Arafat,[44] Rabin said, on
behalf of the Israeli people, "We who have fought against you, the
Palestinians, we say to you today, in a loud and a clear voice, enough
of blood and tears ... enough!"[45] During this term of office, Rabin
also oversaw the signing of the Israel–
Jordan

Jordan peace treaty in
1994.[46]
Economic and social reforms
Rabin significantly reformed Israel's economy, as well as its
education and healthcare systems. His government significantly
expanded the privatization of business, moving away from the country's
traditionally socialized economy. The scheme was described by Moshe
Arens as a "privatization frenzy." In 1993, his government set up the
"Yozma" program, under which attractive tax incentives were offered to
foreign venture capital funds that invested in
Israel

Israel and promised to
double any investment with government funding. As a result, foreign
venture capital funds invested heavily in the growing Israeli
high-tech industry, contributing to Israel's economic growth and
status as a world leader in high-tech. In 1995, the National Health
Insurance Law was passed. The law created Israel's universal health
care system, moving away from the traditionally Histadrut-dominated
health insurance system. Doctors' wages were also raised by 50%.
Education spending was raised by 70%, with new colleges being built in
Israel's peripheral areas, and teachers' wages rising by one-fifth.
His government also launched new public works projects such as the
Cross-
Israel

Israel Highway and an expansion of Ben Gurion
Airport.[47][48][49][50]
Nobel Peace Prize
(right to left) Yitzhak Rabin,
Shimon Peres

Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat
receiving the
Nobel Peace Prize

Nobel Peace Prize following the Oslo Accords
For his role in the creation of the Oslo Accords, Rabin was awarded
the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, along with
Yasser Arafat

Yasser Arafat and Shimon
Peres.[51][52] The Accords greatly divided Israeli society, with some
seeing Rabin as a hero for advancing the cause of peace and some
seeing him as a traitor for giving away land they viewed as rightfully
belonging to Israel. Many Israelis on the right wing often blame him
for Jewish deaths in terror attacks, attributing them to the Oslo
agreements.[53]
"Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony
to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life." Yitzhak
Rabin, 1994
Nobel Peace Prize

Nobel Peace Prize lecture[54]
Assassination and aftermath
Main article: Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Monument marking the site of the assassination: Ibn Gabirol Street
between
Tel Aviv
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Tel Aviv City Hall and Gan Ha'ir
Graves of Yitzhak (right) and
Leah Rabin

Leah Rabin (left) on Mount Herzl
On the evening of 4 November 1995 (12th of
Heshvan

Heshvan on the Hebrew
Calendar[55]), Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir, a right-wing
extremist who opposed the signing of the Oslo Accords. Rabin had been
attending a mass rally at the Kings of
Israel

Israel Square (now Rabin
Square) in Tel Aviv, held in support of the Oslo Accords. When the
rally ended, Rabin walked down the city hall steps towards the open
door of his car, at which point Amir fired three shots at Rabin with a
semi-automatic pistol. Two shots hit Rabin, and the third lightly
injured Yoram Rubin, one of Rabin's bodyguards. Rabin was taken to the
nearby Ichilov Hospital with considerable delay, where he died on the
operating table less than 40 minutes later due to blood loss and a
punctured lung. Amir was immediately seized by Rabin's bodyguards. He
was later tried, found guilty, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
After an emergency cabinet meeting, Israel's foreign minister, Shimon
Peres, was appointed as acting Israeli prime minister.[56]
Rabin's assassination came as a great shock to the Israeli public and
much of the rest of the world. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis
thronged the square where Rabin was assassinated to mourn his death.
Young people, in particular, turned out in large numbers, lighting
memorial candles and singing peace songs. On 6 November 1995, he was
buried on Mount Herzl. Rabin's funeral was attended by many world
leaders, among them U.S. president Bill Clinton, Australian Prime
Minister Paul Keating, Egyptian president
Hosni Mubarak

Hosni Mubarak and King
Hussein of Jordan. Clinton delivered a eulogy whose final words were
in
Hebrew

Hebrew – "Shalom, Haver" (Hebrew: שלום חבר, lit.
Goodbye, Friend).[57][58]
The square where he was assassinated, Kikar Malkhei Yisrael (Kings of
Israel

Israel Square), was renamed
Rabin Square

Rabin Square in his honor. Many other
streets and public institutions in
Israel

Israel have also subsequently been
named after him. After his assassination, Rabin was hailed as a
national symbol and came to embody the ethos of the "Israeli peace
camp," despite his military career and hawkish views earlier in
life.[59] In November 2000, his wife Leah died and was buried
alongside him.
After the murder, it was revealed that Avishai Raviv, a well known
right-wing extremist at the time, was in fact a Shin Bet
agent-informer code-named Champagne. Raviv was later acquitted in
court of charges that he failed to prevent the assassination. The
court ruled there was no evidence that Raviv knew assassin Yigal Amir
was plotting to kill Rabin.[60] After Rabin's assassination, his
daughter
Dalia Rabin-Pelossof
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Dalia Rabin-Pelossof entered politics and was elected to the
Knesset

Knesset in 1999 as part of the Center Party. In 2001, she served as
Israel's deputy minister of defense.[61]
Commemoration
Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin Walk in Queens, New York City
The
Knesset

Knesset has set the 12th of Cheshvan, the murder date according to
the
Hebrew

Hebrew calendar, as the official memorial day of Rabin.[62]
A memorial stone honouring Rabin in Wellington, New Zealand
In 1995 the Israeli Postal Authority issued a commemorative Rabin
stamp.[63]
In 1996 Israeli songwriter
Naomi Shemer

Naomi Shemer translated Walt Whitman's poem
"O Captain! My Captain!" to
Hebrew

Hebrew and wrote music for it to mark the
anniversary of Rabin's assassination. The song is since commonly
performed or played in
Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin memorial day services.
The
Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin Centre was founded in 1997 by an act of the Knesset,
to create "[a] Memorial Centre for Perpetuating the Memory of Yitzhak
Rabin." It carries out extensive commemorative and educational
activities emphasising the ways and means of democracy and peace.
Mechinat Rabin, an Israeli pre-army preparatory program for training
recent high school graduates in leadership prior to their IDF service,
was established in 1998.
In 2005 Rabin received the Dr.Rainer Hildebrandt Human Rights Award
endowed by Alexandra Hildebrandt. The award is given annually in
recognition of extraordinary, non-violent commitment to human rights.
Many cities and towns in
Israel

Israel have named streets, neighbourhoods,
schools, bridges and parks after Rabin. The country's largest power
station, Orot Rabin, two government office complexes (at the HaKirya
in
Tel Aviv
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Tel Aviv and the
Sail Tower

Sail Tower in Haifa), the Israeli terminal of the
Arava/Araba border crossing with Jordan, and two synagogues are also
named after him. Outside Israel, there are streets and squares named
after him in Bonn, Berlin, Chicago, Madrid, Miami, New York City, and
Odessa

Odessa and parks in Montreal, Paris,
Rome

Rome and Lima.[64] The community
Jewish high school in
Ottawa

Ottawa is also named after him.[65][66]
The
Cambridge University

Cambridge University
Israel

Israel Society hosts its annual academic
lecture in honour of Yitzhak Rabin.[67]
See also
Israel

Israel portal
Biography portal
List of Israeli Nobel laureates
List of Jewish Nobel laureates
Kempler video, assassination of
Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin video
Shir LaShalom, the "Peace Song" sung by Rabin at the peace rally short
before his assassination
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One of the last recorded interviews with Yitzhak Rabin – a
six-minute interview with David Esing, recorded one month before his
assassination.
Eulogies at the Funeral of Prime Minister Rabin Jewish Virtual Library
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Rabin". New Straits Times, p. 20.
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Literature)
1978:
Menachem Begin

Menachem Begin (Peace)
1994:
Shimon Peres

Shimon Peres /
Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin (Peace)
2002:
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2004:
Aaron Ciechanover

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Avram Hershko
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Avram Hershko (Chemistry)
2005:
Robert Aumann

Robert Aumann (Economics)
2009:
Ada Yonath

Ada Yonath (Chemistry)
2011:
Dan Shechtman

Dan Shechtman (Chemistry)
2013:
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Michael Levitt /
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Arieh Warshel (Chemistry)
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1918
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1923
1924
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1928
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1956
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1963 International Committee of the Red Cross / League of Red
Cross Societies
1964 Martin Luther King Jr.
1965 UNICEF
1966
1967
1968 René Cassin
1969 International Labour Organization
1970 Norman Borlaug
1971 Willy Brandt
1972
1973 Lê Đức Thọ (declined award) / Henry Kissinger
1974 Seán MacBride / Eisaku Satō
1975 Andrei Sakharov
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1977 Amnesty International
1978 Anwar Sadat / Menachem Begin
1979 Mother Teresa
1980 Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
1981
United Nations

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
1982 Alva Myrdal / Alfonso García Robles
1983 Lech Wałęsa
1984 Desmond Tutu
1985 International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
1986 Elie Wiesel
1987 Óscar Arias
1988 UN Peacekeeping Forces
1989 Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama)
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev
1991 Aung San Suu Kyi
1992 Rigoberta Menchú
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1994 Shimon Peres / Yitzhak Rabin / Yasser Arafat
1995 Pugwash Conferences / Joseph Rotblat
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1997 International Campaign to Ban Landmines / Jody Williams
1998 John Hume / David Trimble
1999 Médecins Sans Frontières
2000 Kim Dae-jung
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2012 European Union
2013 Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
2014 Kailash Satyarthi / Malala Yousafzai
2015 Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet
2016 Juan Manuel Santos
2017 International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
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George Andrew Olah

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Kenzaburō Ōe

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Peace
Yasser Arafat

Yasser Arafat (Palestine)
Shimon Peres

Shimon Peres (Israel)
Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin (Israel)
Physics
Bertram Brockhouse

Bertram Brockhouse (Canada)
Clifford Glenwood Shull (United States)
Physiology or Medicine
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Alfred G. Gilman (United States)
Martin Rodbell
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Martin Rodbell (United States)
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John Harsanyi (United States)
John Forbes Nash (United States)
Reinhard Selten

Reinhard Selten (Germany)
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11
12
13
14
15
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Charles Lindbergh

Charles Lindbergh (1927)
Walter Chrysler
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Walter Chrysler (1928)
Owen D. Young

Owen D. Young (1929)
Mohandas Gandhi (1930)
Pierre Laval

Pierre Laval (1931)
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932)
Hugh S. Johnson

Hugh S. Johnson (1933)
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1934)
Haile Selassie

Haile Selassie (1935)
Wallis Simpson

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Chiang Kai-shek
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Soong Mei-ling

Soong Mei-ling (1937)
Adolf Hitler

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Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin (1939)
Winston Churchill

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941)
Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin (1942)
George Marshall
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George Marshall (1943)
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman (1945)
James F. Byrnes

James F. Byrnes (1946)
George Marshall
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George Marshall (1947)
Harry S. Truman

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Winston Churchill

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The American Fighting-Man (1950)
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Mohammed Mosaddeq (1951)
Elizabeth II

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Konrad Adenauer

Konrad Adenauer (1953)
John Foster Dulles
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Harlow Curtice

Harlow Curtice (1955)
Hungarian Freedom Fighters (1956)
Nikita Khrushchev

Nikita Khrushchev (1957)
Charles de Gaulle
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Charles de Gaulle (1958)
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1959)
U.S. Scientists:
George Beadle / Charles Draper / John Enders / Donald
A. Glaser /
Joshua Lederberg

Joshua Lederberg /
Willard Libby

Willard Libby /
Linus Pauling

Linus Pauling / Edward
Purcell / Isidor Rabi /
Emilio Segrè

Emilio Segrè /
William Shockley

William Shockley / Edward
Teller / Charles Townes /
James Van Allen

James Van Allen / Robert Woodward (1960)
John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy (1961)
Pope John XXIII
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Pope John XXIII (1962)
Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. (1963)
Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson (1964)
William Westmoreland

William Westmoreland (1965)
The Generation Twenty-Five and Under (1966)
Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson (1967)
The
Apollo 8

Apollo 8 Astronauts:
William Anders

William Anders /
Frank Borman

Frank Borman / Jim Lovell
(1968)
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Willy Brandt

Willy Brandt (1970)
Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon (1971)
Henry Kissinger

Henry Kissinger /
Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon (1972)
John Sirica

John Sirica (1973)
King Faisal (1974)
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Kathleen Byerly

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Alison Cheek /
Jill Conway /
Betty Ford

Betty Ford / Ella Grasso / Carla Hills / Barbara Jordan
/
Billie Jean King
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Billie Jean King /
Susie Sharp /
Carol Sutton / Addie Wyatt (1975)
1976–2000
Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter (1976)
Anwar Sadat
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Deng Xiaoping
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Deng Xiaoping (1978)
Ayatollah Khomeini (1979)
Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan (1980)
Lech Wałęsa

Lech Wałęsa (1981)
The Computer (1982)
Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan /
Yuri Andropov

Yuri Andropov (1983)
Peter Ueberroth

Peter Ueberroth (1984)
Deng Xiaoping
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Deng Xiaoping (1985)
Corazon Aquino

Corazon Aquino (1986)
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Mikhail Gorbachev (1987)
The Endangered Earth (1988)
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Mikhail Gorbachev (1989)
George H. W. Bush
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George H. W. Bush (1990)
Ted Turner

Ted Turner (1991)
Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton (1992)
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Yasser Arafat

Yasser Arafat /
F. W. de Klerk

F. W. de Klerk /
Nelson Mandela
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Nelson Mandela /
Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin (1993)
Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II (1994)
Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich (1995)
David Ho

David Ho (1996)
Andrew Grove

Andrew Grove (1997)
Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton /
Ken Starr

Ken Starr (1998)
Jeffrey P. Bezos (1999)
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George W. Bush (2000)
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Rudolph Giuliani (2001)
The Whistleblowers: Cynthia Cooper /
Coleen Rowley

Coleen Rowley / Sherron Watkins
(2002)
The American Soldier (2003)
George W. Bush

George W. Bush (2004)
The Good Samaritans:
Bono

Bono /
Bill Gates

Bill Gates /
Melinda Gates

Melinda Gates (2005)
You (2006)
Vladimir Putin
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Vladimir Putin (2007)
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Ben Bernanke

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Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg (2010)
The Protester (2011)
Barack Obama

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Pope Francis

Pope Francis (2013)
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Salome Karwah

Salome Karwah (2014)
Angela Merkel

Angela Merkel (2015)
Donald Trump

Donald Trump (2016)
The Silence Breakers (2017)
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Eitan (1974–77)
Ben-Gal (1977–81)
Drori (1981–83)
Orr (1983–86)
Peled (1986–91)
Mordechai (1991–94)
Levin (1994–98)
Ashkenazi (1998–2002)
Gantz (2002–05)
Adam (2005–06)
Eizenkot (2006–11)
Golan (2011–14)
Kochavi (2014–present)
Strik (2014–present)
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Deputy Chiefs of Staff of the
Israel

Israel Defense Forces
Tzvi Ayalon (1948–49)
Mordechai Maklef

Mordechai Maklef (1949–52)
Haim Laskov

Haim Laskov (1955–56)
Tzvi Tzur

Tzvi Tzur (1958)
Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin (1961–63)
Haim Bar-Lev (1967–68)
Israel

Israel Tal (1973)
Yekutiel Adam (1978–82)
Moshe Levi (1982–83)
David Ivry

David Ivry (1983–85)
Dan Shomron

Dan Shomron (1985–86)
Amir Drori

Amir Drori (1986–87)
Ehud Barak

Ehud Barak (1987–91)
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak

Amnon Lipkin-Shahak (1991–94)
Matan Vilnai

Matan Vilnai (1994–97)
Shaul Mofaz

Shaul Mofaz (1997–98)
Uzi Dayan

Uzi Dayan (1998–99)
Moshe Ya'alon

Moshe Ya'alon (1999–2002)
Gabi Ashkenazi

Gabi Ashkenazi (2002–04)
Dan Halutz

Dan Halutz (2004–05)
Moshe Kaplinsky

Moshe Kaplinsky (2005–07)
Dan Harel

Dan Harel (2007–09)
Benny Gantz

Benny Gantz (2009–10)
Yair Naveh

Yair Naveh (2010–13)
Gadi Eizenkot
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Gadi Eizenkot (2013–14)
Yair Golan

Yair Golan (2014–17)
Aviv Kochavi

Aviv Kochavi (2017–present)
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Chiefs of Staff of the
Israel

Israel Defense Forces
Yaakov Dori

Yaakov Dori (1947–49)
Yigael Yadin

Yigael Yadin (1949–52)
Mordechai Maklef

Mordechai Maklef (1952–53)
Moshe Dayan

Moshe Dayan (1953–58)
Haim Laskov

Haim Laskov (1958–61)
Tzvi Tzur

Tzvi Tzur (1961–64)
Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin (1964–68)
Haim Bar-Lev (1968–72)
David Elazar

David Elazar (1972–74)
Mordechai Gur

Mordechai Gur (1974–78)
Rafael Eitan

Rafael Eitan (1978–83)
Moshe Levi (1983–87)
Dan Shomron

Dan Shomron (1987–91)
Ehud Barak

Ehud Barak (1991–95)
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak

Amnon Lipkin-Shahak (1995–98)
Shaul Mofaz

Shaul Mofaz (1998–2002)
Moshe Ya'alon

Moshe Ya'alon (2002–05)
Dan Halutz

Dan Halutz (2005–07)
Gabi Ashkenazi

Gabi Ashkenazi (2007–11)
Benny Gantz

Benny Gantz (2011–15)
Gadi Eizenkot
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Gadi Eizenkot (2015–present)
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Prime Ministers of
Israel

Israel
Ben-Gurion (1948–53)
Sharett (1953–55)
Ben-Gurion (1955–63)
Eshkol (1963–69)
Allon (acting)
Meir (1969–74)
Rabin (1974–77)
Begin (1977–83)
Shamir (1983–84)
Peres (1984–86)
Shamir (1986–92)
Rabin (1992–95)
Peres (1995–96)
Netanyahu (1996–99)
Barak (1999–2001)
Sharon (2001–06)
Olmert (2006–09)
Netanyahu (2009–present)
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Communications Ministers of
Israel

Israel
Nurock (1952)
Burg (1952–58)
Barzilai (1958–59)
Mintz (1960–61)
Sasson (1961–67)
Yeshayahu (1967–69)
Rimalt (1969–70)
Peres (1970–74)
Uzan (1974)
Rabin (1974–75)
Uzan (1975–77)
Begin (1977)
Amit (1977–78)
Moda'i (1979–80)
Aridor (1981)
Tzipori (1981–84)
Rubinstein (1984–87)
Yaacobi (1987–90)
Pinhasi (1990–92)
Shahal (1992–93)
Aloni (1993–96)
Livnat (1996–99)
Ben-Eliezer (1999–2001)
Rivlin (2001–03)
Sharon (2003)
Olmert (2003–05)
Itzik (2005)
Hirschson (2006)
Atias (2006–2009)
Kahlon (2009–13)
Erdan (2013–14)
Netanyahu (2014–17)
Hanegbi (2017)
Kara (2017–)
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Defense Ministers of
Israel

Israel
Ben-Gurion (1948–54)
Lavon (1954–55)
Ben-Gurion (1955–63)
Eshkol (1963–67)
Dayan (1967–74)
Peres (1974–77)
Weizman (1977–80)
Begin (1980–81)
Sharon (1981–83)
Arens (1983–84)
Rabin (1984–90)
Shamir (1990)
Arens (1990–92)
Rabin (1992–95)
Peres (1995–96)
Mordechai (1996–99)
Arens (1999)
Barak (1999–2001)
Ben-Eliezer (2001–02)
Mofaz (2002–06)
Peretz (2006–07)
Barak (2007–13)
Ya'alon (2013–16)
Lieberman (2016–)
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Education Ministers of
Israel

Israel
Shazar (1949–50)
Remez (1950–51)
Ben-Gurion (1951)
Dinur (1951–55)
Aran (1955–60)
Eban (1960–63)
Aran (1963–69)
Allon (1969–74)
Yadlin (1974–77)
Hammer (1977–84)
Navon (1984–90)
Hammer (1990–92)
Aloni (1992–93)
Rabin (1993)
Rubinstein (1993–96)
Hammer (1996–98)
Levy (1998–99)
Sarid (1999–2000)
Barak (2000–01)
Livnat (2001–06)
Sheetrit (2006)
Tamir (2006–09)
Sa'ar (2009–13)
Piron (2013–14)
Bennett (2015–)
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Health Ministers of
Israel

Israel
Shapira (1948–51)
Burg (1951–52)
Sapir (1952)
Serlin (1952–55)
Yosef (1955)
Barzilai (1955–61)
Shapira (1961–66)
Barzilai (1966–69)
Gvati (1969–70)
Shem-Tov (1970–77)
Shostak (1977–84)
Gur (1984–86)
Arbeli-Almozlino (1986–88)
Tzur (1988–90)
Olmert (1990–92)
Ramon (1992–94)
Rabin (1994)
Sneh (1994–96)
Hanegbi (1996)
Matza (1996–99)
Benizri (1999–2000)
Milo (2000–01)
Dahan (2001–02)
Sharon (2002)
Dahan (2002–03)
Naveh (2003–06)
Edri (2006)
Ben-Yezri (2006–09)
Netanyahu (2009–13)
German (2013–14)
Netanyahu (2015)
Litzman (2015–)
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Interior Ministers of
Israel

Israel
Gruenbaum (1948–49)
Shapira (1949–52)
Rokach (1952–55)
Shapira (1955)
Bar-Yehuda (1955–59)
Shapira (1959–70)
Meir (1970)
Burg (1970–74)
Hillel (1974)
Burg (1974–76)
Hillel (1977)
Burg (1977–84)
Peres (1984)
Peretz (1984–87)
Shamir (1987–88)
Deri (1988–93)
Rabin (1993)
Deri (1993)
Rabin (1993–95)
Baram (1995)
Libai (1995)
Barak (1995)
Ramon (1995–96)
Suissa (1996–99)
Sharansky (1999–2000)
Ramon (2000–01)
Yishai (2001–02)
Sharon (2002)
Yishai (2002–03)
Poraz (2003–04)
Pines-Paz (2005)
Sharon (2004–06)
Bar-On (2006–07)
Sheetrit (2007–09)
Yishai (2009–13)
Sa'ar (2013–14)
Erdan (2014–15)
Shalom (2015)
Netanyahu (2015–16)
Deri (2016–)
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Labour Ministers of
Israel

Israel
Bentov (1948–49)
Meir (1949–56)
Namir (1956–59)
Yoseftal (1959–61)
Allon (1961–68)
Almogi (1968–74)
Rabin (1974)
Baram (1974–77)
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Religious Services Ministers of
Israel

Israel
Maimon (1948–51)
Shapira (1951–58)
Toledano (1958–60)
Warhaftig (1961–74)
Rafael (1974)
Zadok (1974)
Rafael (1974–76)
Zadok (1977)
Abuhatzira (1977–81)
Burg (1981–84)
Peres (1984)
Burg (1984–86)
Hammer (1986–90)
Shaki (1990–92)
Rabin (1992–95)
Sheetrit (1995–96)
Netanyahu (1996)
Suissa (1996–97)
Netanyahu (1997)
Hammer (1997–98)
Netanyahu (1998)
Levy (1998)
Suissa (1998–99)
Cohen (1999–2000)
Beilin (2000–01)
Ohana (2001–03)
Sharon (2003)
Cohen (2008–09)
Margi (2009–2013)
Bennett (2013–15)
Azulai (2015–)
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Social Affairs and Social Services Ministers of
Israel

Israel
Levin (1948–52)
Shapira (1952–58)
Naftali (1959)
Burg (1959–70)
Hasani (1970–74)
Shem-Tov (1974)
Hasani (1974–75)
Rabin (1975)
Burg (1975)
Hammer (1975–76)
Baram (1977)
Begin (1977)
Katz (1977–81)
Abuhatzira (1981–82)
Uzan (1982–84)
Katsav (1984–88)
Shamir (1988–90)
Milo (1990)
Shamir (1990–92)
Rabin (1992)
Namir (1992–96)
Yishai (1996–2000)
Cohen (2000–01)
Benizri (2001–02)
Sharon (2002)
Benizri (2002–03)
Orlev (2003–04)
Olmert (2006–07)
Herzog (2007–11)
Kahlon (2011–13)
Cohen (2013–14)
Katz (2015–)
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Ambassadors of the State of
Israel

Israel to the
United States

United States of America
Eliahu Eilat

Eliahu Eilat (1948–50)
Abba Eban

Abba Eban (1950–59)
Avraham Harman

Avraham Harman (1959–68)
Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin (1968–73)
Simcha Dinitz (1973–79)
Ephraim Evron

Ephraim Evron (1979–82)
Moshe Arens

Moshe Arens (1982–83)
Meir Rosenne

Meir Rosenne (1983–87)
Moshe Arad (1987–90)
Zalman Shoval

Zalman Shoval (1990–93)
Itamar Rabinovich

Itamar Rabinovich (1993–96)
Eliahu Ben-Elissar (1996–98)
Zalman Shoval

Zalman Shoval (1998–2000)
David Ivry

David Ivry (2000–02)
Danny Ayalon

Danny Ayalon (2002–06)
Sallai Meridor (2006–09)
Michael Oren

Michael Oren (2009–13)
Ron Dermer (2013–)
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Mount Herzl
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