- Title: JERUSALEM: Israel marks 10 years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
- Date: 3rd November 2005
- Summary: ISRAELI SECURITY SURROUNDING RABIN'S ASSASSIN YIGAL AMIR
- Embargoed: 18th November 2005 12:00
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- Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
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- Story Text: Ten years after his assassination, Israel marked the beginning of a two-week long memorial events to mourn the loss of Yitzhak Rabin, Israel's former Israeli Prime Minister.
Israeli President Moshe Katsav opened the two-week long memorial events for Rabin on Thursday (November 3).
Katzav lit a candle at his formal residence during an official ceremony attended by Rabin's family and Israeli officials. The ceremony marked the official opening of memorial events due to last for two weeks, marking the 10th anniversary of Rabin's assassination.
Rabin's daughter, Dalia Rabin-Philosoph, addressing people at the ceremony in Jerusalem, "We had a leader of great stature that chose to go a new way. There was a true and significant breakthrough and there was a tough and determined man that paved this way. Even though he (Rabin) had anticipated and foreseen the difficulties of this way, he new this is the right way and there is no other way," she said.
An international two-day conference is scheduled to open on Nov. 15 at the Netanya Academic College. World leaders and dignitaries, including United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie have confirmed their attendance at the gathering in the seaside city of Netanya.
Yigal Amir, an ultranationalist Jew opposed to Rabin's peace moves with the Palestine Liberation Organisation shot the Prime Minister at a Tel Aviv peace rally on November 4, 1995. - Copyright Holder: FILE REUTERS (CAN SELL)
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