04 Nov 1995: Yitzhak Rabin assassinated

On this day in 1995, Yitzhak Rabin, the prime minister of Israel, was assassinated during a peace rally.

Rabin with Bill Clinton and Yasser Arafat, 1993. (White House)

Some more on Rabin:

• the first Israeli PM to be born in Israel
• led the Israeli army during the Six-Day War (1967)
• member of the Labor Party
• had a previous stint as PM, 1974-1977, succeeding Golda Meir
• made peace deals with Yasser Arafat of Palestine (1993) and King Hussein of Jordan (1994)
  • after Rabin’s death, Hussein called him “a brother, a colleague and a friend”