Yitzhak Rabin
As a child at the Kaddouri school, 1935.
With (left to right) Yigal Yadin and Yigal Allon, 1948
With daughter Dalia, 1952
A moment of relaxation on the tennis court, 1992
Visiting the Tower of David Museum in Jerusalem's Old City, 1995
With Jordan's King Hussein on the shores of the Kinneret, 1994
Blowing out the candles for his seventy-third birthday, 1995
Mordechai: Continue Rabin's legacy
By MICHAL YUDELMAN
TEL AVIV (November 1) - "Three bullets killed Yitzhak Rabin, but did not and will never kill his legacy of strengthening Israel's security and promoting peace," Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai said last night at a massive memorial rally at Tel Aviv's Kikar Rabin to mark the third anniversary of his assassination.
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The crowd, which police estimated at 150,000, filled the square and the surrounding streets an hour before the rally and thousands of people kept thronging to the site. "We must continue his way," said a giant poster behind the elevated stage. "Friend, you are missed" it said, along the bottom of the podium. Thousands carried memorial candles.
Leah Rabin, who spoke last at the four-hour rally, said: "Today the words traitor and murderer arouse dread in the public. You paid with your blood and we with your loss, so that such incitement today sounds a warning siren and everyone warns against [what might happen]."
"But then nobody paid attention and we let you fall," she said.
Labor MK Shimon Peres lashed out at those who had attacked Rabin's way of thinking. He reprimanded Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for failing to mention Rabin at the signing of the Wye Memorandum.
"The signature could have been a contribution to the nation's unity had Netanyahu asked everyone to rise in memory of this great man," he said.
Mordechai, who was received warmly by the crowd, said "the bullets that killed Rabin hit the heart of the nation, the heart of democracy and the heart of Israeli society. The wound has not healed and we will carry the scars for generations... "Three years after the murder, we came to say this is the legacy for future generations: Such a thing will not happen again in our land."
Gesher leader MK David Levy, the first speaker at the rally, said "We of this generation, who witnessed the terrible tragedy, will always remember and remind [others] how, why and for what the prime minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, was murdered."
Labor Party leader Ehud Barak said: "This is a day of victory, Yitzhak. Your way has finally triumphed."
Barak commended the government and its leaders for achieving the Wye agreement, pledging "we'll support peace and wait for its implementation, as confused, faltering and filled with contradictions as it may be."
Barak sharply denounced any incitement or call of "traitor" against a prime minister.
Danna Harman adds:
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, at a press conference in Jerusalem said that he too, took part in the "deep sorrow and the terrible shock," felt by all Israelis at the time of Rabin's murder.
Third Anniversary coverage: November 1, 1998
Mordechai: Continue Rabin's legacy
From the day following the assassination:
From the day of the funeral:
From the First Anniversary:
From the Second Anniversary:
A lesson in remembrance (Feature)
Nothing has changed (Opinion)
Rabin's victory (Opinion)
November 5, 1995
Rabin Assassinated
November 7, 1995
Rabin laid to rest on Mt. Herzl
October 24, 1996
Yitzhak Rabin: The Sabra, the Mensch
From Father to Son
November 9, 1997
Massive rally honors Rabin