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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton meets with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Sunday, lauds PM for courageous withdrawal from settlements, condemns Iranian president's current anti-Israel statements. Clinton attended Rabin's memorial ceremony Saturday. During the meeting, Clinton strongly condemned Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent statement that Israel "should be wiped off the map," and said that the Iranian president was not elected in order to make such declarations. I believe he was elected so that he will advance and promote his country's economy, Clinton said. Clinton arrived in Israel with his wife, Senator Hilary Clinton, and their daughter Chelsea. The three have...

Clinton: Rabin knew he was risking his life Masses gather in Tel Aviv for emotional memorial ceremony to mark 10 years since assassination of Yitzhak Rabin; former President Clinton receives enthusiastic reception from crowd, says 'not a week goes by' where he doesn't think of Rabin. New Labor party leader Peretz calls for 'moral road map,' end to occupation Attila Somfalvi (VIDEO) Tens of thousands of people gathered at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv Saturday evening for an emotional memorial ceremony to mark a decade since the murder of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. Tel Aviv Police estimate that around 70,000...

For Palestinians, Yitzhak Rabin is remembered first of all as someone who instructed soldiers to break their arms and legs, when they began their popular uprising against the Israeli occupation in 1987. Before the handshake on the White House lawn, before the Nobel Prize and before the murder, when Palestinians were asked about Rabin, this is what they remember: One thinks of his hands, scarred by soldiers' beatings; another remembers a friend who flitted between life and death in the hospital for 12 days, after he was beaten by soldiers who caught him drawing a slogan on a wall during...

As the fifth anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin's assassination drew near in 2000, the organization dedicated to preserving Rabin's heritage convened a large and politically diverse group to discuss the character of the events that marked a murder that shook the Israeli and Jewish nation to the core, shifting its foundations perhaps forever. Organizers of the commemoration heeded advice against using the day as an indictment against the right wing, as had been the case previously. The events would focus on a condemnation of all violence, incitement, and threats to national unity. In addition, they would educate the public about the...

‘He Had No Choice’ - The wife of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin on why her husband wants a new trial, his life in prison and his desire to have a child. Yigal Amir, the right-wing extremist serving a life sentence for assassinating Israeli leader Yitzhak Rabin a decade ago, is demanding a new trial. Though he admitted in court to pulling the trigger and was even filmed in the act, the 35-year-old religious Jew now claims new evidence suggests there might have been a high-level plot to kill Rabin--and that Amir’s bullet therefore may not have been the fatal one. The...

Dr. Levin is the author of The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege. He earned an undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania, a B.A./M.A. in English language and literature from Oxford University, an M.D. degree from Penn and a Ph.D. in history from Princeton University. He is a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and maintains a private practice in psychiatry. Dr. Levin has written extensively on Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict. His articles have appeared in The New Republic, The Boston Globe, The Washington Times, and The Jerusalem Post. On the...

Jailed Assassin 'Weds' Using Loophole Fri Sep 3,10:25 AM ET By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Defying a life prison term in isolation, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassin has secretly married by proxy, his bride said Friday. Larisa Trimbobler said she hoped her in-absentia wedding to Yigal Amir last month would help overturn a court ban on conjugal visits for the ultranationalist who shot Rabin at a 1995 rally in a bid to block peace deals with the Palestinians. Jewish law requires that two men witness a bride receiving her ring and marriage contract from the groom. According to...

Kerry vice presidential pick Sen. John Edwards has so little foreign policy experience that he reportedly couldn't identify the name Yitzhak Rabin as belonging to the late Israeli prime minister. In a report unearthed Tuesday by top talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, Edwards was said to be organizing his campaign schedule in 2003 when his advance man suggested, "Maybe we ought to go to the reception for Leah Rabin." Edwards response: "Who's she?'' When informed that Mrs. Rabin was the widow of Yitzhak Rabin, Edwards reportedly asked, "Who was he?" The story, originally reported by the Washington Monthly a year...

President Moshe Katzav, visiting in France, said yesterday that the late Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin never would have signed the Oslo accords had he known that Yasser Arafat would continue terrorism. The French news agency AFP reports that Katzav, speaking at a reception in his honor at the Council of Jewish Institutions in France, said, "Since the signing of the Oslo accords, we have not had one day of peace - while we have made far-reaching compromises." "Rabin took this historic step," Katzav said, but "if he had known that Arafat would continue with terrorism, he would never have signed....

Although Labor and the Likud differ in their views on the solution to the Palestinian question, we both oppose in the strongest terms the creation of a Palestinian "mini-state" in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, first and foremost because it cannot solve anything. It certainly will not be able to absorb the almost million and a half Palestinians who currently reside beyond these two areas; and just as surely it will be ruled by the most extreme faction in the Palestinian political spectrum - the PLO. Such "internal" Palestinian politics might not be any of Israel's business were...

Micha and I were sitting at the dining room table a couple of days ago. He was doing some homework, and I was reading. Out of the blue, he looked up at me and asked, "Do you think I'll still have asthma when I'm a grownup?" For the life of me, I couldn't figure out why in the world he was asking me that. "I don't know. You might. But I'm sure it's going to get a lot better. Why do you ask?" "Ema says that the army won't take me if I have asthma." Now, the truth is that...

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared Thursday afternoon at a memorial service for Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin that peace and brotherhood must come "first and foremost amongst ourselves" and that the country will not be "atoned of blood" until the chasm left by Rabin's assassination has been healed. Sharon spoke to hundreds of government officials, foreign dignitaries, and uniformed soldiers gathered at Rabin's grave on Mount Herzl to commemorate the slain leader's death eight years ago by the Jewish calendar. He told the crowd, which included Labor Party Chairman Shimon Peres, Knesset Speaker Ruby Rivlin, and Secretary of Defense Shaul Mofaz,...

Eight years have passed since the most tragic day in our short modern history, the day our elected leader, Yitzhak Rabin, was felled by a political assassin, one claiming to be a religious Jew. The years have passed, and the memory is perhaps less raw, but the wound to our society is far from healed. Many of the tens of thousands who gathered to remember Rabin in the square in which he was shot on that horrible evening gathered behind the slogan, "Never forget, never forgive." We agree. We must never forget that political assassination is such an ugly, unthinkable...

Anti Rabin Graffiti Artist Arrested 21:21 Nov 03, '03 / 8 Cheshvan 5764 (IsraelNN.com) A woman described as “psychologically unstable” was arrested this afternoon while writing “Rabin the murderer” and “by his command, Jews were murdered”, on a memorial at Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square. Police report she was caught in the act.

A hundred thousand people filled Rabin Square to overflowing yesterday to mark the New Year of the Peace Camp. I was considerably surprised. Logically, the more Rabin's path becomes revealed as a bloody fiasco, and as more and more Israelis lose their lives, livings, security, hopes and happiness as a result of the cursed Oslo Agreement, the number of oddballs coming to commemorate and identify with the man who symbolizes it more than anyone else should decrease. But the contrary happened. And even if we say that they came to hear Aviv Gefen, or that they were bored youngsters, or...

PLEASE SIGN THE CONDOLENCE BOOK: http://www.otn.com/netking/ Nov. 2, 2003 200,000 Remember Rabin By MATTHEW GUTMAN An estimated 100,000 people packed Kikar Rabin in Tel Aviv on Saturday night to pay homage to slain prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, gathering at the spot where he was gunned down eight years ago to show support for the peace process he helped launch. Security was tight for the event, with some 1,500 police and soldiers manning barricades. Security guards combed the crowds, following several acts of vandalism at the site, including Rabin's memorial itself. Speakers delivered their speeches behind thick panes of bulletproof glass....

Over 1,500 police, Border Police and civil guard volunteers are providing security for the estimated 100,00 people attending the Saturday evening memorial ceremony for the eight anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Roads surrounding the central square in Tel Aviv named for the slain premier are being closed off to vehicles, with Police manning the entrances to the area. Police originally estimated that about 60,000 people would attend the ceremony ,and were surprised by the numbers who turned out. At just after 10pm, the thousands attending the ceremony observed a minute of silence in honour of the...

Oct. 31, 2003 Rabin monument vandalized By JPOST.COM STAFF The Rabin Memorial, defaced The Rabin Memorial in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square was defaced early Friday morning by vandals painting swastikas. "Everything should be done to find those responsible for the act of vandalism, and to uproot such phenomena," said Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The vandalism comes one day before a scheduled rally to commemorate the eighth anniversary of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's murder. The monument has already been vandalized just before memorials for Rabin were due to take place, and police had placed a guard in the area to prevent...

In 1985, I was in a Hebrew language class where our daily discussion turned to current events. The night before, the Israeli government had released some 1100 prisoners in exchange for several Israeli soldiers captured in Lebanon. Yitzhak Rabin, Minister of Defense at the time, explained that he could no longer bear seeing the despondent faces of the parents of those captured soldiers. In our classroom discussion, one young woman argued, “When I saw the faces of the parents whose sons had come home, I knew the correct decision was made.” I strongly disagreed. “To free those three soldiers,” I...