Yitzhak Rabin

The E1 area: The strategic link between Jerusalem and Israel’s eastern border - opinion

The E1 area is vital to Jerusalem’s political future, and its importance is equally decisive for Israel’s ability to maintain a defensible border in the east.

Israeli minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich attends a press conference announcing his plans to approve more than 3,000 housing units in the E1 settlement project between Jerusalem and Ma’ale Adumim, August 14, 2025.
IDF soldier operating on Israel's border with Syria, September 9, 2025.

IDF to deploy voting stations behind enemy lines in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza ahead of October election

Yigal Amir

The line we cannot cross: Israel must never free Yigal Amir - editorial

Gadi Eisenkot, head of the Yashar party, attends a conference in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, July 9, 2026

Eisenkot demands police launch probe into politically motivated assault of Yashar! party activist


Is a political assassination in Israel possible today? - opinion

Could a political assassination still occur in Israel today? Has the danger passed? Thirty years have gone by, full of fierce internal struggles, yet without an outbreak of extreme violence.

PEOPLE VISIT the memorial site for prime minister Yitzhak Rabin at the scene of his assassination in 1995, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, on November 4, 2024.

My Word: Remembering Israel's assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, 30 years on

Yitzhak Rabin’s legacy has been eroded over the past three decades, but the lesson about the dangers of political extremism must not be allowed to die.

A RALLY IN 2015 at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv marking 20 years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.

Grapevine October 31, 2025: Jolting memories

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

HILA RONEN, Israir’s deputy director of marketing and sales, Lithuanian Ambassador Audrus Bruzga, and MK Uri Maklev.

Half of Israelis fear add'l political assassinations, 30 years after Rabin's murder

Thirty years after Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, a new survey finds 52% of Israelis fear another political killing, and most say incitement is unchecked.

YITZHAK RABIN and Yasser Arafat, under the gaze of then-US president Bill Clinton, sign a peace protocol on the White House lawn in 1993.

On This Day: Israel, Jordan sign 1994 peace treaty, ending forty-six years of war

Following Egypt in 1979, Jordan was the second Arab country in the Middle East to sign a peace treaty with Israel.

An image of the front page of The Jerusalem Post on October 27, 2025.

This month in Jewish history: Rabin assassination, Tree of Life shooting

A highly abridged monthly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

A memorial ceremony for former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, November 7, 2019

Being silent and listening: A leadership skill no one talks about - opinion

Many great leaders knew that the willingness to be silent long enough to hear something new makes all the difference.

AN ALTERCATION breaks out in the Knesset plenum during a debate earlier this year. The best leaders don’t measure themselves by how much they say, but by what happens when they speak, and what they’ve made room for others to say, the writers argue.

To understand Israel's collapse, we must look at who Netanyahu surrounds himself with - opinion

In Israel, the quality of a leader’s inner circle is a matter of survival. The Prime Minister’s Office's current lack of a permanent director-general is a key weakness.

Then-alternate prime minister Naftali Bennett and then-finance minister Avigdor Liberman attend a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem in 2022. They have each served as an adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; now, they both want to replace him, the writer notes.

This week in Jewish history: Israel and Jordan end state of enmity

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

 THEN-PRIME MINISTER Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan’s King Hussein shake hands, as then-US president Bill Clinton applauds, at the peace treaty signing ceremony at the border between the two countries, in 1994.

Lessons from Rabin to Netanyahu: Political assassinations destroy democracies - editorial

We must choose a different path. One of principled dissent, not destruction. Of passionate disagreement, not dehumanization.

 THEN-PRIME MINISTER Yitzhak Rabin and then-foreign minister Shimon Peres attend a Labor Party meeting in 1993. Rabin had been kept in the dark by Peres about the talks in Oslo, the writer asserts.