JERUSALEM/WEST BANK: MOURNERS KEEP VIGIL BY RABIN'S GRAVE AS ACTING PRIME MINISTER PROMISES RABIN'S DREAM OF PEACE WILL LIVE ON

Record ID: 394173

  • Title: JERUSALEM/WEST BANK: MOURNERS KEEP VIGIL BY RABIN'S GRAVE AS ACTING PRIME MINISTER PROMISES RABIN'S DREAM OF PEACE WILL LIVE ON
  • Date: 7th November 1995
  • Summary: JERUSALEM/ TEL AVIV, ISRAEL/ HEBRON, WEST BANK (NOVEMBER 7, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) JERUSALEM 1. SV LATE ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN'S GRAVE, CANDLES, PEOPLE MOURNING (5 SHOTS) 0.31 TEL AVIV, ISRAEL 2. SV MOURNERS PLACING CANDLES OUTSIDE RABIN HOME/ SOLDIER WATCHING (6 SHOTS) 1.08 JERUSALEM 3. SCU ISRAELI G
  • Embargoed: 22nd November 1995 12:00
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  • Location: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL/ JERUSALEM/ HEBRON, WEST BANK
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA2DPVH169PBFYCQ0H20CSQQYOM
  • Story Text: Mourners kept up a vigil on Tuesday (November 7) at the graveside of assassinated Israeli leader Yitzhak Rabin in Jerusalem and at his Tel Aviv home, three days after he was killed by a gunman at a peace rally.

    Caretaker Prime Minister Shimon Peres promised Rabin's dream of Arab-Israeli peace would live on and Israel on Tuesday resumed talks with the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation).

    Official mourning posters marking the death and funeral of the assassinated prime minister were torn and defaced on Jerusalem's main Jaffa Street.

    Posters showing Rabin with PLO leader Yasser Arafat and United States (US) president Bill Clinton at the 1993 landmark peace deal were also defaced.

    Posters from religious organisations posted next to the mourning notices were, by contrast, left untouched.

    Government spokesman Uri Dromi told reporters on Tuesday that investigations were underway into possible links the alleged assassin may have had with right-wing groups.

    A leader of the extreme right-wing Israeli settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron said that Prime Minister Rabin and his (Rabin's) Labour Party government are responsible for the circumstances that lead to the assassination.

    Baruch Merzel, one of the leaders of the 400 radical settlers in Hebron, has a number of convictions and has served time in prison for his activities.

    Merzel and his supporters believe Hebron, a city with over 100,000 Arab inhabitants, should be a Jewish city, part of a "Greater Israel" that would include the occupied West Bank.

    Merzel said that he did not approve of the killing, since he thought a worse punishment for Rabin would be to live and see the result of his policies, which Merzel said would lead to the death of hundreds of Jews.

    Israel also eased a closure on the West Bank and Gaza Strip, letting in a few thousand workers barred from entering since Rabin was shot.

    Israeli military officials said thousands of workers would be allowed in from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, home to two million Palestinians. The borders were sealed off after the assination.

    A spokesman said the army would allow in workers with permits aged 30 and older from the occupied West Bank and those aged 35 and older from the self-ruled Gaza Strip.

    Officials said the age limits were aimed at keeping out younger Palestinians, perceived as a greater security threat.

    Palestinian police and Israeli military sources said talks with the PLO would cover the handover of Jenin, the first West Bank town to be transferred to PLO leader Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority since self-rule began in Gaza and Jericho 18 months ago.


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