Yitzhak Rabin was born in Jerusalem, on March 1, 1922.
Yitzhak Rabin studied at Beit Hinuch Leyaldei Ovdim (a school for workers' children) in Tel Aviv and the agricultural school Kedourie.
On December 5, 1963 Rabin was appointed as Israel's seventh Chief of Staff.
In February 1968 Rabin was appointed as Israel's Ambassador to Washington where he left a distinct mark on US-Israel relations.
In June 1974 Rabin was appointed Prime Minister.
In 1984 Rabin was appointed Minister of Defense.
After regaining the Labor Party leadership in February 1992, Rabin was appointed Prime Minister and Minister of Defense in July.
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.

Read about Rabin's life - Click here   
Rabin - Knesset
Rabin - Jewish-virtual-library

Sing the Song that Prime Minister Rabin sang 

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.

 Thinking about it...

Where were you when Prime Minister Rabin was assassinated?

What were you doing?

What did you feel when you heard of Rabin's death?

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.

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      Abraham Lincoln     
* 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.

Links Etni Internet project on other political leaders who were assassinated Exhibition pictures on Rabin Rabin Center AMIT - Hebrew picture gallery Yitzhak Rabin - Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs Condolence page photographs of Yitzhak Rabin Yitzhak Rabin - The Jewish Agency

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Last updated 23/10/07