Yitzhak Rabin

Elephant diplomacy: Ambassador marks mark 72 years of Thai-Israeli relations with zoo visit

“The Thai elephant is very important, they are in the heart of Thai people. They are the symbols of living diplomacy, the good relations between Thailand and Israel,” Vichienpuntu said.

|BySAM HALPERN, MATHILDA HELLER
Thai ambassador to Israel, Boonyarit Vichienpuntu, in front of the elephants at Jerusalem’s Tisch Family Zoological Gardens. June 4, 2026.
THE 1993 OSLO Accords between Israel and the PLO were signed in Washington, with a beaming president Bill Clinton presiding over the White House ceremony

Can the Oslo Accords model still deliver peace after October 7? - opinion

Three decades after Oslo, regional turmoil, terrorism, and international pressure challenge its negotiation-based model.

|ByALAN BAKER
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sits with his arm around his wife Sara as she accompanies her husband on the podium during Netanyahu's election victory ceremony, on June 2, 1996.

30 years after Netanyahu’s victory in 1996: How the comeback marvel changed Israel - opinion

Netanyahu’s victory in 1996 remains one of the greatest political comebacks in Israel.

|ByEITAN LASRI
A LIKUD supporter waves the party’s flag at a gathering, a show of grassroots loyalty which has long defined the movement, even as critics say its primaries have reshaped, and at times distorted, who rises within its ranks.

Middle Israel: How Likud’s primaries poisoned Israeli politics - opinion

The 18-year fencing match between Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin came to a sudden end, thanks to an invention Israel had never seen: primary elections. 

|ByAMOTZ ASA-EL

Grapevine November 6, 2022: Pride before the fall

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

NOVEMBER 6, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
YITZHAK RABIN

Israel remembers Rabin as Netanyahu prepares to retake control

A number of MKs addressed the fact that this year's memorial will be held as Ben Gvir prepares to enter the new government.

NOVEMBER 5, 2022ByELIAV BREUER
Israelis attend a memorial ceremony for late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, organized by the Labour party, at Zion Square in Jerusalem October 29, 2022.

On This Day in 1995: Yitzhak Rabin assassinated by Jewish extremist Yigal Amir

Rabin, a former prime minister, IDF chief of staff and Israeli war hero, was assassinated during a pro-Oslo Accords rally in Tel Aviv.

NOVEMBER 4, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A memorial ceremony for former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, November 7, 2019

Yitzhak Rabin: Israeli security realist or idealist peacemaker? - opinion

Rabin’s assassination at the hands of an ultra-right Jewish fanatic, occurring immediately following a Tel Aviv peace rally, begat the image of the slain prime minster as a martyr for peace.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022ByMARK REGEV
YOUNGSTERS MARK the loss of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin on the third anniversary of his death in 1998 at the site of his assassination in Tel Aviv.

Grapevine November 2, 2022: Back to the balcony

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

NOVEMBER 2, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
CHIEF RABBI of Ukraine Moshe Reuven Azman with Nir Kimhi (center) and MK Nir Barkat.

Israel elections: Politicians enter final preparations as voting day nears

Labor on Saturday night held a rally in memory of former Labor leader and prime minister Yizhak Rabin, who was assassinated on November 4, 1995.

OCTOBER 29, 2022ByELIAV BREUER
A NEARLY-EMPTY Knesset plenum debates the dispersal of parliament, in June. In the upcoming election, be a strategic and principled voter, not a tactical and cynical one, says the writer.

Grapevine October 26, 2022: With a little help from his friends

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

OCTOBER 26, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
GRAYEVSKY TOOK one of the last photographs of late president Shimon Peres.

Israel Elections: Will Palestinian terror shape the 2022 vote's outcome?

NATIONAL AFFAIRS: The bottom line is: Palestinian terrorism may yet determine the outcome of the Israeli election in 2022, just as it did in 1996.

OCTOBER 21, 2022ByHERB KEINON
POLICE AND RESCUE personnel at the scene Wednesday night’s terror attack at the entrance to Ma’aleh Adumim.

Why a two-state solution won’t work - opinion

Another problem that the terminology of the two-state solution generates is the expectation that if the Palestinians’ grievances are fully addressed and resolved.

OCTOBER 9, 2022ByDORE GOLD
PRIME MINISTER Yair Lapid addresses the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York City, Sept. 22.

Grapevine October 2, 2022: Remembering Rabin

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

OCTOBER 2, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
A CLOSE LOOK at Yitzhak Rabin’s core diplomatic and defense views, above and beyond Oslo, does the late prime minister more justice.