Rabin was a two-time prime minister whose assassination shattered hopes for peace under the Oslo Accords, for which he shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat. He also signed a peace treaty with Jordan in 1994. As a Palmach officer, he was involved in efforts to break the blockade of Jerusalem in 1948 and rose to be the IDF’s chief of staff during the 1967 war. He served as ambassador to the United States before entering the Knesset with the Labor Party.
Among our many resources on Yitzhak Rabin:
- Rabin fights at the 1948 Battle of Latrun
- Rabin protects the Jordan River in the IDF
- Rabin’s views on Israel’s right of self-defense
- Rabin succeeds Golda Meir as prime minister
- Rabin breaks up his governing coalition during his first term as prime minister
- Rabin and Carter clash at their first meeting
- Rabin signs the Oslo Accords
- Rabin speech at the Oslo signing
- Why Rabin signed the Oslo Accords
- Shamgar Commission reports on the Rabin assassination
