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Obama message due at Rabin memorial By Igal Hai A message from Barack Obama will be delivered tomorrow at the 13th central commemoration ceremony for Yitzhak Rabin in Tel Aviv. American labor leader James Hoffa is scheduled to speak at the memorial event where he will deliver a message from the U.S. president-elect, Haaretz has learned. James Phillip Hoffa, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters - one of the largest labor unions in the U.S. - is a close associate to Obama, who won the presidential race on Tuesday. Advertisement He is the only son of Jimmy Hoffa, who was also a president of the Teamsters, and who gained tremendous notoriety in the U.S. following his unexplained disappearance in 1975. Jimmy Hoffa is presumed dead. Other speakers at Rabin Square will include Rabin's daughter, Dalia, President Shimon Peres, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai. The memorial program will feature singer Miri Aloni, who 13 years ago sang "A Song for Peace" along with Rabin shortly before his assassination. The Labor leader was killed at a peace rally at Malchei Yisrael Square, later renamed in his memory. He was shot twice by an extremist opposed to ceding Jewish land. Aloni, who sings the hit song regularly at annual commemoration events at Rabin Square, will be joined by Ninet Tayeb, Corinne Alal, Keren Peles and Meytal Trabelsi. On Sunday, the official memorial day for Rabin's assassination, teenagers from the HaNoar HaOved VeHaLomed ("The Working and Studying Youth Movement) will hold vigils at 86 junctions, city and town centers across the country from Kiryat Shmona in the northern Galilee to Mitzpe Ramon. The number of vigils corresponds with Rabin's age, if he were still alive. "It seems at times that people have forgotten that a prime minister was murdered here 13 years ago," a spokesperson for the youth movement told Haaretz. "But we cannot afford to forget the date. As people involved in education, we must face what the murder means for the reality in which we all live. Racism, which keeps trying to rear its head, is just one aspect of this. Our slogan, 'We shall not forgive nor forget,' is an oath for us." Bookmark to del.icio.us   Expecting change Hamas leader Meshal says Obama has no choice but to talk to group. Kosher Kiwi New Zealand elects a Jewish and conservative Prime Minister.

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