ISRAEL/WEST BANK: ISRAELIS REMEMBER YITZHAK RABIN'S THIRD ASSASSINATION ANNIVERSARY

Record ID: 394187

  • Title: ISRAEL/WEST BANK: ISRAELIS REMEMBER YITZHAK RABIN'S THIRD ASSASSINATION ANNIVERSARY
  • Date: 1st November 1998
  • Summary: JERUSALEM (NOVEMBER 1, 1998) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV SCHOOL STUDENTS AT MEMORIAL CEREMONY, SINGING 0.07 2. LV/SLV YOUTHS PERFORMING AT CEREMONY, STUDENTS WATCHING (2 SHOTS) 0.30 3. CU STUDENTS WATCHING CEREMONY (2 SHOTS) 0.36 4. VIDEO PRESENTED AT CEREMONY SHOWING RIGHT-WING INCITEMENT AGAINST FORMER PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN 0.46
  • Embargoed: 16th November 1998 12:00
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  • Location: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL/ JERUSALEM/ RAMALLAH, WEST BANK
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA7EG2FU2C95ND2MNCI8WENAV6V
  • Story Text: Israelis have been remembering Yitzhak Rabin, three
    years after his assassination, many saying the peace deal his
    adversary Benjamin Netanyahu signed last month had vindicated
    the slain prime minister.

    Up to 200,000 Israelis paid respects at a Saturday
    (October 31) night rally on the Tel Aviv square where a
    religious Jew murdered Prime Minister Rabin on November 4,
    1995.But Netanyahu in his own remarks signalled that Israel
    remained as polarised as ever over the best way to make peace
    with Palestinians.

    A Gallup poll of 566 Israelis for the newspaper Maariv
    last week found that 60 percent feared someone might try to
    assassinate Netanyahu following the rightwing prime minister's
    U.S.-brokered deal with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.

    Those attending the rally waved banners, and lit candles
    to recall the 1993 breakthrough deal Rabin reached with the
    Palestinians in Oslo.

    Israeli schools marked the anniversary on Sunday with a
    series of ceremonies and the setting up of memorial sites
    inside their classrooms.

    Throughout the morning thousands of Jews paid their
    respects at the site where Rabin was murdered in Tel Aviv,
    lighting candles and offering prayers.

    Rabin's widow Leah, accompanied by her children Daliya
    and Yuval, visited Israeli President Ezer Weizman in
    Jerusalem, to attend a memorial ceremony of family friends and
    associates.

    Netanyahu, the right-wing Likud party leader elected prime
    minister six months after the assassination, began his cabinet
    meeting on Sunday with a moment of silence.But he insisted
    his peace moves bore no resemblance to those made by Rabin..

    Yigal Amir killed Rabin to try to halt a handover of West
    Bank land to Palestinians.Netanyahu agreed to cede another 13
    percent in return for a crackdown on anti-Israeli militants
    but said he won concessions Rabin's government could never
    obtain.

    Protests last week in which untranationalists branded
    Netanyahu a traitor with blood on his hands have meanwhile
    raised fears that extremists might target him in the same way
    as Rabin.


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