Yitzhak Rabin
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President Clinton with Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yassir Arafat on the South Lawn, September 13, 1993.
| Yitzhak Rabin | |
|---|---|
| Term of office June 3, 1974 - April 22, 1977 | |
| Political party | Labour Party (Israel) |
| Preceded by | [[Golda Meir]] |
| Succeeded by | [[Shimon Peres]] |
| Term of office July 13, 1992 - November 4, 1995 | |
| Preceded by | [[Yitzhak Shamir]] |
| Succeeded by | Shimon Peres |
| Born | March 1, 1922 Jerusalem |
| Died | November 4, 1995 Tel Aviv |
| Religion | Atheism |
Yitzhak Rabin (יִצְחָק רַבִּין) (1922 - 1995) was the Labour Prime Minister of Israel from 1992-1995.
During the Second World War Rabin fought against the Vichy regime in Syria and Lebanon and after the beginning of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War he was responsible for the defense of Jerusalem. During the Six-Day War in 1967 Rabin was chief of staff of Israel’s army.[1]
He was instrumental in bringing about the Oslo Accords and due to their signing shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Shimon Peres and Yassir Arafat. He was assassinated in on November 4, 1995 by Yigal Amir, a right-wing Jewish Israeli law student because of his signing of the peace accords.[2]