Yitzhak Rabin

Half of Israelis fear add'l political assassinations, 30 years after Rabin's murder

Thirty years after Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, a new survey finds 52% of Israelis fear another political killing, and most say incitement is unchecked.

|ByPESACH BENSON/TPS
YITZHAK RABIN and Yasser Arafat, under the gaze of then-US president Bill Clinton, sign a peace protocol on the White House lawn in 1993.
An image of the front page of The Jerusalem Post on October 27, 2025.

On This Day: Israel, Jordan sign 1994 peace treaty, ending forty-six years of war

Following Egypt in 1979, Jordan was the second Arab country in the Middle East to sign a peace treaty with Israel.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
A memorial ceremony for former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, November 7, 2019

This month in Jewish history: Rabin assassination, Tree of Life shooting

A highly abridged monthly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

|BySTEVEN DRUCKER
AN ALTERCATION breaks out in the Knesset plenum during a debate earlier this year. The best leaders don’t measure themselves by how much they say, but by what happens when they speak, and what they’ve made room for others to say, the writers argue.

Being silent and listening: A leadership skill no one talks about - opinion

Many great leaders knew that the willingness to be silent long enough to hear something new makes all the difference.

|ByLOUIS LIBIN, MICHAEL J. SALAMON

To understand Israel's collapse, we must look at who Netanyahu surrounds himself with - opinion

In Israel, the quality of a leader’s inner circle is a matter of survival. The Prime Minister’s Office's current lack of a permanent director-general is a key weakness.

AUGUST 3, 2025ByTOVA HERZL
Then-alternate prime minister Naftali Bennett and then-finance minister Avigdor Liberman attend a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem in 2022. They have each served as an adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; now, they both want to replace him, the writer notes.

This week in Jewish history: Israel and Jordan end state of enmity

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

JULY 26, 2025BySTEVEN DRUCKER
THEN-PRIME MINISTER Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan’s King Hussein shake hands, as then-US president Bill Clinton applauds, at the peace treaty signing ceremony at the border between the two countries, in 1994.

Lessons from Rabin to Netanyahu: Political assassinations destroy democracies - editorial

We must choose a different path. One of principled dissent, not destruction. Of passionate disagreement, not dehumanization.

JULY 25, 2025ByJPOST EDITORIAL
THEN-PRIME MINISTER Yitzhak Rabin and then-foreign minister Shimon Peres attend a Labor Party meeting in 1993. Rabin had been kept in the dark by Peres about the talks in Oslo, the writer asserts.

Israel strikes Iran: Strategic success or start of an uncertain future? - opinion

We have no idea what awaits us in the next few weeks or months.

JUNE 16, 2025BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Israel Katz attend a Plenum session of the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, in Jerusalem, June 11, 2025.

The 'Post' looks back on search for Sgt.-Maj. Tzvi Feldman

Feldman was initially declared as one of three soldiers declared missing in action in 1984.

MAY 12, 2025ByJOANIE MARGULIES
The headline that ran on May 6, 1984 announcing that Tzvi Feldman was one of three soldiers declared missing in action.

The blessing and burden of bearing first witness to Jewish history

How can Jewish journalists turn away the call of history and simultaneously bear the weight of what they must report?

DECEMBER 27, 2024ByRON KAMPEAS/JTA
A portrait of the writer by sketch artist Emily Goff.

October 7 gave Netanyahu's 'fragile' government a lifeline, Bill Clinton suggests

Clinton also defended the possibility of a future Jewish president of the United States.

DECEMBER 7, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Illustrative image of former US president Bill Clinton.

Let's cool it and stop fanning the flames of conflict - editorial

Given our long history, we Jews have a short memory. Baseless hatred resulted in the destruction of the Temple, and the same internecine strife ended with Rabin’s assassination.

NOVEMBER 18, 2024ByJPOST EDITORIAL
PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog and his wife, Michal, stand at the graves of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and his wife, Leah, on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem this week, marking the 29th anniversary of Rabin’s assassination when he served as prime minister.

Reflecting on Israel's future 29 years after the Rabin assassination - opinion

Now, 29 years after that horrid assassination, amid a battle for the Jewish democratic image of Israeli society – our obligation as educators is to be an example for our students.

NOVEMBER 17, 2024ByOFEK MEIR
PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog and his wife, Michal, stand at the graves of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and his wife, Leah, on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem this week, marking the 29th anniversary of Rabin’s assassination when he served as prime minister.

WATCH: New recordings of Yitzhak Rabin on Arab-Israeli peace talks, role of reservists

Yitzhak Rabin spoke of the importance of manpower and mobilizing reservists following the Yom Kippur War, echoing modern sentiments.

NOVEMBER 13, 2024ByMAYA GUR ARIEH
Ori Or, Yithak Rabin, Moshe Levy, Uri Sagi.

Grapevine November 13, 2024: Two-way street

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

NOVEMBER 13, 2024ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
PRESIDENT ISAAC Herzog with China’s representative on the UN security Council Ambassador Fu Cong.