# Yitzhak Rabin Israeli general and politician; Chief of the General Staff during the [[Six-Day War]], ambassador to Washington, and prime minister twice (1974–77 and 1992–95). He signed the [[Oslo Accords]], shared the 1994 [[Nobel Peace Prize]] with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat, and was **assassinated on 4 November 1995** by an Israeli citizen opposed to the agreement. ## Arc - Commanded the Palmach's Harel Brigade in 1948 and rose through the IDF to Chief of Staff in 1964, holding that post through the victory of June 1967. - Ambassador to the United States 1968–73; prime minister from 1974 after Golda Meir's resignation over the Yom Kippur War, resigning in 1977 over a foreign bank account held by his wife — the scandal that helped produce the *Mahapakh* and the first [[Likud]] government. - Defence minister during the First Intifada from 1987, where his handling drew sustained criticism. - Returned as prime minister in 1992 and authorised the secret Oslo channel, signing the Declaration of Principles at the White House on **13 September 1993**. ## The assassination Rabin was shot at the end of a peace rally in Tel Aviv by **Yigal Amir**, a religious-nationalist law student who invoked the halakhic category of *din rodef* and said he acted to stop the transfer of land. The preceding year of protest had featured images of Rabin in SS uniform and in a coffin, and rabbinical opinions circulated in settlement communities discussing whether the category applied to him. The murder is commemorated annually as a national day of remembrance and remains the reference point for every Israeli argument about incitement. It is also, for this vault, the clearest single case of **political violence from a democracy's own right achieving its objective** — see the finding at [[Oslo Accords]]. ## See Also - [[Oslo Accords]] · [[Israeli History Hub]] · [[Six-Day War]] - [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] · [[Itamar Ben-Gvir]] · [[Likud]] · [[Kahanism]] - [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] · [[Israel]] · [[Bill Clinton]]