Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin ( יצחקרבין ) (born with Jerusalem on March 1st 1922 - assassinated with Tel Aviv the November 4th 1995) is a soldier and Israeli Politician .

After a career in the Israeli Armed within which it reaches the rank Général, it launches out in a career Politique. It becomes again the fifth Prime Minister of Israel of 1974 with 1977 then of 1992 until its assassination by an Jewish extremist in 1995.

It receives the Nobel Prize of peace in 1994, in particular for its active role in the signature of the Accords of Oslo in 1993.

Youth

Yitzhak Rabin is born with Jerusalem under the British mandate, but it grows with Tel Aviv starting from the age of 1 year. It follows its principal school course in an agricultural college until in 1940 and is intended to become agricultural engineer specialized in the irrigation. In 1941, it joined the section Palmach of the Haganah, during the formations to the Kibboutz Ramat Yochanan, and becomes officer in 1947. It Marie in 1948 with future the Leah Rabin.

Military career

During the Israeli-Arab War of 1948, Rabin directs the operations of defense to Jerusalem and fact face to the Egyptian army in the Negev. It also obtains significant victories at the time of the Guerre the six day old in 1967. It is among the first Israelis to put the foot in the Old city of Jerusalem after the reunification of the city, proclaimed top of the Mont Scopus with the Hebraic Université.

Political career

Rabin leaves Tsahal then becomes ambassador with the the United States in 1968. In 1973, it is elected appointed Labor with the Knesset. It joined the government as a Minister for Labor then is elected leading of its political party. It succeeds the June 2nd 1974 Golda Meir with the head of the government, as a Prime Minister.

First mandate of Prime Minister

The principal big event of its first government is celebrates it Raid of Entebbe during which the soldiers of Tsahal carry out the rescue of the passengers of a plane diverted by a group of Palestinian terrorists.

Two crises bring Yitzhak Rabin to the resignation:

its coalition breaks when four planes F-15 are delivered one day of Chabbat.
the existence of an bank account in American dollars in the name of his wife, is revealed, which was prohibited at the time by the Israeli monetary rules.

Yitzhak Rabin recognizes this bank account and resigns.

Member of the opposition

Menahem Begin and the Likoud is carried to the capacity in 1977, following the resignation of Rabin which becomes member of the left opposition then.

During years 1980, it takes the wallet of Minister for Defense in several governments of national union. It is known in particular for radical measurements which it takes to counter the the First Intifada.

Second mandate of Prime Minister

Rabin is re-elected Prime Minister in 1992. It takes a major dimension by signing the Accords of Oslo in 1993, thus creating the Palestinian Autorité and yielding for the first time a control partial of certain zones of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank to the Palestinians. Under its mandate, Yasser Arafat gives up the recourse to violence officially and recognizes Israel in an official letter. Rabin recognizes in return PLO the September 9th 1993.

Another striking fact: Rabin signs a peace treaty with the Jordan in 1994.

The Nobel Prize of peace is decreed in 1994 with the political directors who allowed the Accords of Oslo: Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat. At the same time at Mr. Shimon Peres and Mr. Yasser Arafat and a few days before his death, Mr. Rabin received the PRICE OF the FOUNDATION of the hands of Mr. Jean-Paul Carteron President of the Forum of Montana Notches and Mr. Jean-Pascal Delamuraz President of the Swiss Confederation.

These Agreements attract the sympathy of part of the population and the hatred to him of the activists of extreme right-hand side. Some see it then as a hero of peace while others perceive it like a traitor having given up a share of the promised territory in the Bible with the Jewish people.

The Rabin government is maintained however thanks to the deputies Arab Israelis of the Knesset.

Died and consequences

73 years old, Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated of three balls on November 4th 1995 just after having made a speech at the time of a demonstration for peace on the place of the kings of Tel Aviv. Its assassin is Ygal Amir, a Jew Israeli studying in right and opposed to the Accords of Oslo, concluded in 1993 with the Palestinians. Mortally wounded, Rabin dies on the operating table of the Hôpital Ichilov of Tel Aviv a few hours later. There exist many theories of plots around the circumstances of its assassination (Its murder was filmed by Ronny Kempler, a photo hobbyist, then diffused on television Israeli). The date of this assassination is commemorated on the place where it was killed and which bears from now on its name, just like a great number of streets and Israeli associations.

The israélo-Palestinian Peace process was largely braked following the assassination of Rabin. This murder also had as a consequence a widening of the fracture in the Israeli company between the monks and the laic ones.

Ten years after its assassination, two hundred and thousand Israelis gathered the November 5th 2005 in Tel Aviv on the place, renamed with its name from now on symbol of peace, where it had been cut down in 1995. Many personalities were present as the Israeli President, Moshe Katsav, the American Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, old the American President, Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton, senator of the State of New York.

Functions

Of the March 10th 1974 with the June 3rd 1974: Minister for Labor.
Of the June 3rd 1974 with the June 20th 1977: Prime Minister.
Of the June 3rd 1974 with the March 20th 1975: Minister of Transport.
Of the September 13rd 1984 with the March 15th 1990: Minister for Defense.
Of the July 13rd 1992 with the November 4th 1995: Prime Minister and Minister for Defense.
Of the July 13rd 1992 with the December 31st 1992: Minister for the Businesses of Jerusalem and Minister for Labor.
Of the July 13rd 1992 with the June 7th 1993: Minister for Education and the Culture.
Of the July 13rd 1992 at June 1st 1994: Minister for Health.
Of the July 13rd 1992 with the February 27th 1995: Minister for the Religious affairs.
Of the September 14th 1993 with the February 27th 1995: Minister of Interior Department.

Quotations

“It is necessary to fight terrorism as if there were no negotiations, and to negotiate as if there were no terrorism. ”
“the Bible is not a land register. ”

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