Rabin joined Palmach, one of the pre-state Jewish armed groups, as a teenager. Photo circa 1943.
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With his daughter, Dalia, in Britain, where he attended the Royal Staff College at Camberley, 1953.
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Rabin assumed command of the Israeli military at age forty-two. Pictured here on September 1, 1964.
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Rabin and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan at the Western Wall, June 7, 1967, after Israeli troops captured Jerusalem’s Old City from Jordan.
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With his grandson in 1977, during his first term as prime minister. Rabin would say later that he lacked the political experience to serve effectively.
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Rabin with George H. W. Bush in Kennebunkport, Maine, August 10, 1992. Bush’s decision to withhold loan guarantees from Israel’s previous government over settlement expansion helped Rabin get elected.
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Rabin and Arafat at the Oslo Accord signing ceremony outside the White House, September 13, 1993. Their handshake prompted gasps and then cheers from spectators.
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Returning from China, October 1993. The Oslo Accord a month earlier helped improve Israel’s diplomatic position around the globe. Seated across from Rabin are his chief of staff, Eitan Haber (right) and Mossad director Shabtai Shavit. Cabinet Secretary Elyakim Rubinstein is standing in the aisle.
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With Jordan’s King Hussein, shortly after they signed the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty, October 26, 1994. “No doubt about it, Rabin and Hussein fell in love,” Haber would say.
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Rabin and Arafat in Casablanca, Morocco, October 30, 1994. Their relationship was fraught at the outset but evolved into something workable.
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Arafat, Peres, and Rabin receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, December 10, 1994. To avoid slights, the chairman of the committee announced the winners alphabetically.
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Amir as a toddler. His mother described him and his brother as the thinker and the tinkerer, Amir being the more studious and cerebral of the two.
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Amir served in an infantry unit during the first Palestinian uprising in the West Bank. Pictured here with his squad.
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Amir during a trip he took with his girlfriend, Nava Holtzman, to Egypt’s Sinai Desert in 1994. Holtzman broke off the relationship soon after their return.
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Moments after the shooting, November 4, 1995. Police and security men lifting Rabin into the back of the Cadillac.
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The song sheet Rabin tucked into his suit jacket at the rally on November 4, 1995. The title at the top: “A Song for Peace.”
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Rabin’s family at the funeral, November 6, 1995. Left to right: son Yuval, wife Leah, granddaughter Noa, daughter Dalia, and grandson Jonathan.
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Amir reenacting the shooting for the police, days after the assassination. His interrogation-room bluster stunned investigators.
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At their trial, from left to right: Hagai Amir, Dror Adani, and Yigal Amir (with a policeman seated between Adani and Amir).
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