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Israeli Prime Minister and military leader
He was the Israeli Prime Minister who signed the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians and was assassinated in 1995.
Yitzhak Rabin was an Israeli military leader and statesman who served as Prime Minister of Israel in 1974-1977 and 1992-1995. He was Chief of Staff during the 1967 Six-Day War and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 for the Oslo Accords. He was assassinated in 1995 by an extremist opposed to the peace process.
Born in Jerusalem in 1922, Rabin grew up in Tel Aviv and studied agriculture at Kadoorie Agricultural High School. He joined the Haganah at age 14 in 1936 and later the Palmach commando force as a teenager. He originally wanted to study irrigation engineering in California but chose to stay and fight in Palestine.
Rabin married Leah Schlossberg during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War while she worked as a reporter for a Palmach newspaper. They had two children, Dalia born in 1950 and Yuval born in 1955. His mother Rosa was a political activist and Tel Aviv City Council member, while his father Nehemiah worked for the Palestine Electric Corporation.
He was Chief of Staff during Israel's 1967 Six-Day War victory
Won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat
Ordered the successful 1976 Entebbe raid to rescue 105 hostages in Uganda
First Israeli Prime Minister born in Palestine
Served as Israel's ambassador to the United States from 1968 to 1973
We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
Joined the Palmach commando force
Appointed Chief of the General Staff of the IDF
Led Israel to victory in the Six-Day War
Became Prime Minister of Israel for the first time
Authorized the Entebbe raid to rescue hostages
Elected Prime Minister for a second term
Signed the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians
Won Nobel Peace Prize and signed peace treaty with Jordan
Assassinated by Yigal Amir at a peace rally in Tel Aviv