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

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. 

DECEMBER 27, 2025ByDAVID BEN-BASAT
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.

Rabin’s legacy matters more than ever, our amnesia is putting us at risk - opinion

After Rabin’s death, American Jews needed an Israel they could rally behind. A day of mourning for a fractured nation didn’t fit the narrative.

NOVEMBER 24, 2025ByBARAK SELLA
THEN-PRIME MINISTER Shimon Peres addresses a memorial event for slain prime minister Yitzhak Rabin while standing under a giant portrait of Rabin, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, December 1995. Within two years, the commemorations were gone, says the writer.

Grapevine: Yitzhak Rabin: An appreciation

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

NOVEMBER 8, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Portrait of Yitzhak Rabin

Grapevine, November 7, 2025: A nurse with a difference

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

NOVEMBER 7, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Natan Datner with Yona Elian.

Hostage families, fallen soldier relatives, urge national unity at Rabin memorial ceremony

In the shadow of Rabin’s assassination, youth movements gathered to call for healing and national unity in Israel.

NOVEMBER 6, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Merav Leshem Gonen, mother of freed hostage Romi, addresses the crowd at a ceremony commemorating the 30th anniversary of then-prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination, Mount Herzl, Jerusalem, November 5, 2025.

Mother of former hostage urges putting politics aside ahead of Rabin memorial rally - interview

“It’s not the time to talk about policy, but rather to pause and feel the nation’s pain, and look at the future," Meirav Leshem Gonen told The Jerusalem Post.

NOVEMBER 4, 2025ByKESHET NEEV
A rally marking 30 years since the assassination of late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Tel Avivs Rabin Square on November 1, 2025, Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on November 4, 1995 by an Israeli extremist during a pro-peace rally in Tel Aviv.

Defense Ministry reveals rare recordings of Yitzhak Rabin 30 years after his death

The recordings all depict Yitzhak Rabin in closed-door conversations and span a variety of topics, but focus mostly on the IDF and the complexities of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

NOVEMBER 4, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Portrait of Yitzhak Rabin

Revisiting JPost's coverage of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, 30 years later

The following is the full text of the article published on the front page of The Jerusalem Post on the morning of November 5, 1995, following the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

NOVEMBER 4, 2025ByRAINE MARCUS, SARA HONIG, ALON PINKAS
The Jerusalem Post's front cover on the Rabin assassination

On This Day: Israeli former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinated 30 years ago

Rabin was shot by far-Right Jew Yigal Amir following the prime minister's agreement to cede Israeli territory to the Palestinian Liberation Organization in an attempt to achieve peace.

NOVEMBER 4, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, ARIELLA ROITMAN
Yitzhak Rabin (1922 - 1995) making an address, July 1974.

Remembering Rabin: TV programs on the life, death of the prime minister

All the news programs are broadcasting features about Rabin, and there are several documentaries about his life and legacy.

NOVEMBER 4, 2025ByHANNAH BROWN
‘RABIN’S ASSASSINATION – Averted Eyes’ examines both the life and death of the prime minister.