Yitzhak Rabin

On this day: Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinated after peace rally by far-right activist

Rabin was Israel’s fifth prime minister. He served two terms in office, from 1974 until 1977, and again from 1992 until his assassination on November 4, 1995. 

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, ARIELLA ROITMAN
Yitzhak Rabin (1922 - 1995) making an address, July 1974.
Ra'am head Mansour Abbas stands alongside fellow party member Yoav Segalovitz in the northern Israeli city of Sakhnin, on Israel’s general election night, October 27, 2026

Israel's opposition must break its promise, rely on Arab parties to oust Netanyahu - opinion

The opposition should stop overthinking, get out of its own way, thank the Arabs for their support, and get on with saving the country. 

|ByDAN PERRY
Democrats party chairman Yair Golan casts his vote at a polling station in Rosh Ha'ayin, central Israel, during Election Day, October 27, 2026

Knife-wielding man detained after approaching Democrats' Golan during Election Day tour in Tel Aviv

Security personnel noticed a suspicious object protruding from beneath the coat of a man in his 20s from Jerusalem, standing near Golan. He was detained, and a knife was found in his possession.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
‘Politicians should leave room for compromise before the election, rather than making absolute promises they may have to abandon afterward for the good of the country.’ Will the challenge of building Israel’s next coalition government fall to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or Gadi Eisenkot?

Israel’s election is being cast as a historic showdown - but four trends tell a different story

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: From rivalries within political blocs to polls that shape voter choices and coalition red lines, four trends reveal the challenges facing Israel’s next government.

|ByHERB KEINON

Grapevine October 31, 2025: Jolting memories

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

OCTOBER 31, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
HILA RONEN, Israir’s deputy director of marketing and sales, Lithuanian Ambassador Audrus Bruzga, and MK Uri Maklev.

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.

OCTOBER 29, 2025ByPESACH 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.

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.

OCTOBER 26, 2025ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
An image of the front page of The Jerusalem Post on October 27, 2025.

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

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

OCTOBER 25, 2025BySTEVEN DRUCKER
A memorial ceremony for former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, November 7, 2019

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.

AUGUST 27, 2025ByLOUIS LIBIN, MICHAEL J. SALAMON
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.

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.