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Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day

Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day

It happened on November 4th, 1995.
It was a glorious day for the majority of the population which, gathered in a celebration of joy and democracy, joined their beloved prime minister—one of the most seasoned and outstanding military figures in the State of Israel’s brief but intense history—in singing a song for peace.
Yitzhak Rabin knew all too well what it meant to do battle. His nostrils had registered the exact smell of gunpowder, and the pupils of his eyes had beheld hundreds of lifeless countenances. It is doubtless on this account that he understood the supreme value of life.
His was the valor to choose the more difficult path—the path of peace is always the more difficult—, so as to situate Israel in an historic moment of its existence. He was a general of concord, a captain of accords, and a soldier of peace.
Extremist interpretations of a few Halachic forms were the breeding grounds for the two projectiles a young spectator fired into the back of the old warrior.
A disgrace to our people. Igal Amir had the impertinence to associate such antonymous concepts as murder and Judaism.
Yitzhak Rabin knew well that Judaism inexorably respects life.

Shalom Haver – Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day (12th Heshvan)

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat for his efforts to create peace in the Middle East. He did not live to see his hopes become a reality. To date, none of us has. This intergenerational, hands-on workshop is less a biographical or historical study of the man than an inquiry into his yearnings and focuses upon and puts into practice Yitzhak Rabin’s dream of making the region—and the world—a place of peace. The intent of this workshop is to explore approaches to peaceful problem solving, cultivate peace, and promote personal acceptance of social responsibility.

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Time to Sing, Time to Do

Using as a starting point an excerpt from Shir la Shalom, the last peace song sung out loud by Yitzhak Rabin before being assassinated, the author proposes going over a curious Midrash, reviewing the story of Gedaliah ben Achikam, and ending by reflecting on what we can or must do to change the paradigms that to this day suggest we silence dissidence.

By Rabbi Joshua Kullock

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Yitzhak Rabin, Example of Peace and Tolerance

This project, consisting of three activities, starts by working with values like shalom and rodef shalom and then moves on to cover the life of Yitzhak Rabin and his struggle to achieve peace. It also proposes working with the concept of tolerance and tying it in with the life of this important figure for the people of Israel.

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Yitzhak Rabin, a Man in Search of Peace


Marking the anniversary of the death of Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995), the object of this project is to underscore this figure as someone who struggled for peace in the face of violence. This is how he himself put it: “This is the only battle which is a pleasure to wage: the battle of peace.” He was a great soldier, a skilled politician and a great idealist whose main objective was to attain an honorable and permanent peace with the Near East.

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Tekes Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day


The Memorial Day for Yitzhak Rabin, the 12th of Heshvan, marks the anniversary of this great man's death. Yitzhak Rabin served both as the Chief of Staff leading Israel to victory in the Six Day War and as Prime Minister twice, the first term in 1977 and the second from 1992 until his death in 1995.
Under Rabin, Israel made great steps in the path of peace between her and her neighbours, including the famous handshake at the White House when the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993. A year later saw the ending of hostile relations between Israel and Jordan and that same year Rabin was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.

At the end of 1995, Rabin was assassinated after speaking at a peace rally, by a fellow Jew - Yigal Amir, who felt that with the Oslo accords Rabin was giving away too much in the name of peace and was 'threatening the life' of the State of Israel.

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The Assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin


(By the Jewish Education Center of Cleveland) The world community mourns, along with Israel and the Jewish community, the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin.

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