ABSTRACT
Israelis will never forget the fourth day of November 1995. On that day, the bullets of an assassin, Yigal Amir, ended the life of Israel’s Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, who had served as Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces in the Six-Day War, as Ambassador to Washington (between 1968 and 1973), and as the country’s first native-born Prime Minister (from 1974). The end of his term of office as Prime Minister in 1977 had marked the end of rule by a dominant party in Israel, but in 1992 he had led the Labor Party back to power and had then forged revolutionary and controversial agreements with the PLO (1993-94) and signed a peace treaty with Jordan (1994).
