Netanyahu Taps Loyalist David Amsalem as Communications Minister
Ex-coalition whip Amsalem will replace Ayoub Kara, who resigned last week after it was revealed that he auditioned for a reality TV show while serving as minister
Yitzhak Rabin
Rabin's Granddaughter Joins ex-PM Ehud Barak's Party
Noa Rothman, whose grandfather is the late premier Yitzhak Rabin who was murdered by an extremist, says she can't ignore 'price of hatred and incitement'
New Israeli Film on Rabin's Assassin Tells Story Through His Eyes
The thriller is the first feature film on Rabin's murder, examining the political, religious and personal forces spurring on Yigal Amir
Opinion An Alliance of Necessity
For the sake of transparency, Arabs and Jewish democrats must demonstrate maturity and announce that they will forge an alliance, to be called 'the alliance of the coerced,' against Netanyahu
Memorial Wall for Israeli PMs Ignores Rabin's Assassination, Olmert's Premiership
Defense officials were responsible for photo captions that appear to spin history in Netanyahu's favor, overlooking Peres's presidency and leaving out former prime ministers altogether
Opinion Blaming Netanyahu Is No Solution to the Zionist Left's Occupation Complex
Not all of Israel’s disasters began with Rabin’s murder, and not all of its ills will end when Netanyahu is replaced. But when there is nothing to offer, all the blame is placed on Netanyahu.
Opinion A Swedish Lesson for Israel on Political Violence and Remembering Rabin
The link between Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme’s murder and that of Yitzhak Rabin, teaches Israelis that they should dedicate prime minister's memorial to addressing the existential dangers of political violence
The Israeli Historian Who Blames Rabin for His Own Murder and Praises Hitler Is Making a Comeback
Uri Milstein was a leading military historian until he lauded Rabin’s assassin and was shunned. Now he's making his way back into the mainstream
Opinion In Israel, the Death Penalty Is No Blank Bullet
Allowing it for terrorists, or anyone, will mean the crossing of a red line; Israel will have ceased to be Israel
Opinion Who Is the Israeli 'Opposition' Defending?
Wringing one's hands at the booing of Likud's Tsachi Hangebi, a key inciter against Rabin, and a sexist remark aimed at Likud's Miri Regev, a racist, destructive minister, is not the way to build a resistance
Opinion How the Left Can Earn Back the Public's Trust
Fear of immigration and terrorism and the ideological subversion of Western achievements have generated resistance to the left’s policies
Opinion Tzachi Hanegbi Square
Regional Cooperation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi took a bullet for the entire Israeli right as the debate over Rabin's murder has been replaced by attacks on Hanegbi himself
Opinion Netanyahu Should Kneel Before Yitzhak Rabin's Daughter
The Israeli right has resorted to all kinds of tricks and lies and conspiracy theories to rid themselves of the burden of guilt for not stopping the terrible incitement that led to Rabin's assassination
Opinion A Shameful Saturday Night in the Square
The answer to incitement and intolerance of the right cannot be mutual intolerance by the left
Editorial The Right’s Denial of Responsibility
The right’s attempt to depoliticize Rabin’s murder is another stage in the ideological struggle between right and left
Haaretz Weekly Podcast: Could a Lack of Stamps Derail Efforts to Boost Students' Midterm Turnout?
Jewish groups are mobilizing across the United States ahead of this week's midterm elections. Plus: Can Rabin's legacy ever unite the people of Israel?
Analysis Rabin Memorial Rally Organizers Don’t Understand They're Living in a Divided Country
There was a disconnect between the sentiments of the crowd and the memorial's content, and the effort to portray a mood of reconciliation between left and right was indecent and pathetic
Yitzhak Rabin's Assassination Had 'No Historical Influence,' Knesset Speaker Says
Yuli Edelstein criticizes speech by Meretz chairwoman Tamar Zandberg, who called the murder 'the best political assassination in history'
Opinion Never Forgive, Never Forget That Yitzhak Rabin Was Assassinated
By calling the site of the crime Rabin’s-Murder Square, there’s no way of getting away from what happened there 23 years ago
23 Years After Yitzhak Rabin's Assassination, Thousands Gather in Tel Aviv for Mass Memorial Rally
Netanyahu responds to critics at Rabin memorial saying, leftists are 'trying to silence whoever doesn't agree with them' ■ The organizers say rally brings Israelis together to commemorate the late premier amid earlier dispute over exclusion of left-wing party
Opinion The Right Doesn’t Need Another Political Murder
Rabin was murdered because the right wing had a real and immediate need for his death, but today the right doesn’t need to use murder to achieve its vision.
Editorial Political Murder, Political Rally
Nothing will change the facts, and significance, of Rabin’s assassination: The prime minister was murdered at the height of a peace rally, by a religious, right-wing man incited by the right, among them our current prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu
Opinion Yes, the Shin Bet Did Distribute the Rabin-SS Posters
For years I’ve been harping that the Shin Bet, through its informant, distributed an image showing Rabin in an SS uniform, leveling an extremely serious accusation against the Shin Bet
Opinion Revealed: The People Behind the Notorious Rabin-SS Posters
The past 23 years have seen numerous theories about the identities of those who depicted the prime minister in Nazi garb. The existence of a secret trial and verdict are published here for the first time
Opinion After 23 Years, Nothing Has Changed
The right is moving from defense to offense on the road to rewriting history. It wasn’t the right that murdered Rabin, but the assassin came from its ranks, as did a religious edict sanctioning extrajudicial killing
Israeli Left-wing Party Meretz Fumes as It’s Left Off Initial List of Rabin Rally Speakers
'Memory can’t be bought with money. Neither can peace,' the party said in a statement
Analysis Netanyahu’s Current Politics Reopen 23-year-old Wound of Rabin’s Assassination
The prime minister’s assaults on democracy and dissent suddenly seem like a return to his bad old days
Rabin’s Grandchild Calls on Netanyahu to ‘Stop the Incitement’
'You are responsible for the welfare of everyone, not just your voters. If you don’t stop the incitement and attacks against anyone who disagrees with you, blood will be spilled here again,' Rabin's granddaughter said
Breaking the Silence Meets School Students for First Time Since Passage of Law Seen as Targeting Its Activities
Israeli law prohibits school activities organized by groups who supposed legal actions being taken abroad against Israeli soldiers, but the NGO says this doesn't apply to it
Opinion The National Inciter
Will the ceremony in Rabin Square be political or nonpolitical? Yitzhak Rabin's murder was political, and that is how it must be remembered