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Yitzhak
Rabin
1922 - 1995 |
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On November 4, 1995, Prime Minister
and Minister of Defense, Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated. |
| Yitzhak Rabin was born in Jerusalem,
on March 1, 1922. |
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| Yitzhak Rabin studied at Beit Hinuch
Leyaldei Ovdim (a school for workers' children) in Tel Aviv and the
agricultural school Kedourie. |
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| On December 5, 1963 Rabin was
appointed as Israel's seventh Chief of Staff. |
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| In February 1968 Rabin was appointed
as Israel's Ambassador to Washington where he left a distinct mark on
US-Israel relations. |
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| In June 1974 Rabin was appointed Prime
Minister. |
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| In 1984 Rabin was appointed Minister
of Defense. |
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| After regaining the Labor Party
leadership in February 1992, Rabin was appointed Prime Minister and
Minister of Defense in July. |
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| On November 4, 1995 Rabin was shot to
death by a Jewish assassin, at the end of a mass demonstration in Kikar
Malchei Yisrael in Tel Aviv in support of the peace process. |
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 Read about Rabin's life
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Click
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Rabin - Knesset
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 Sing the Song
that Prime Minister Rabin sang 
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Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin sang this song with over 100,000 people
at the peace rally in Tel-Aviv minutes before his assassination.
Click
here.
Fill in the
Song for Peace cloze.
Watch a video with
Miri
Aloni singing the Song for Peace. |
Thinking about it... 
Watch the
following video with Rabin's last speech
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1. Where were you (or your parents / older brothers and sisters)
when Prime Minister Rabin was assassinated?
2. What were you doing?
3.
What did you feel when you heard of Rabin's death?
4. Did you go to Rabin Square to look at the place where Prime
Minister Rabin was
murdered?
The following is a worksheet in
Word about Yitzhak Rabin.
Click
here.
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Mini Project
- Pair/Group Work
1. Choose a picture of Rabin that
you especially like and explain why you like it.
2. Explain why Rabin was
assassinated.
3. Look for other political
leaders who were assassinated.
These sites will help you:
John F. Kennedy
Abraham Lincoln's assassination
Anwar Sadat
Indira Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1 . Describe who the leader was.
2 . What were the leader's political beliefs?
3 . What was controversial about his/her political beliefs?
4 . Why was the political leader assassinated?
5 . What happened as a consequence of the assassination?
6. What do you think about political assassinations?
Display in your English room and
prepare to share your findings with your class.
Express your sympathy
Express your sympathy
to the Rabin
family.
Write in the
Condolence Book.
Sign
the guestbook in Memory of Yitzhak Rabin
To print this activity fill in your name, class, and school and click on
"answers" below.
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Sigalit Arditi
Last updated
09/05/09
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