Rachel Rabin: They abandoned Yitzhak to his fate

"I told them they had abandoned Yitzhak to his fate," says the sister of assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in an interview that will appear in tomorrow's Haaretz Magazine.

Rabin's sister Rachel, now 85, recalls the period leading up to his murder 14 years ago: "'The street is running wild," I said, 'and no one is doing anything. He is not being guarded properly.'"

Two weeks before the murder she spoke those words, going to the United Kibbutz Movement's headquarters in Tel Aviv to try to warn them.

In the interview, she tells of their childhood and teenage years and the cloud of orphanhood that hovered over them for years after their mother's death.

"I don't remember myself without him, she says of her brother. "Our parents were always busy, and he felt responsible for me. I don't think Mother and Father asked him to do that, but he always watched over me. I followed him everywhere, to friends, and he never shooed me away," says Rachel.