Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinated after Tel Aviv peace rally
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After the rally, behind the municipal building
On 4 November 1995, Prime Minister and Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin attended a mass rally under the slogan “Yes to Peace—No to Violence” in Kings of Israel Square, Tel Aviv.
He addressed the crowd, joined other participants in singing “Shir LaShalom,” then left by the rear of the municipal building and walked toward his waiting car.
The shooting happened there, in the parking area — not while he was speaking onstage.
Three shots, two of them into Rabin
Yigal Amir approached from behind and fired three pistol shots. Two struck Rabin; the third hit his bodyguard, Yoram Rubin. Security personnel seized Amir immediately.
Rabin reached nearby Ichilov Hospital in under two minutes by the Shamgar Commission's account, but attempts to save him failed. His chief of staff, Eitan Haber, announced the death outside the hospital at 11:14 p.m.
Within hours an emergency cabinet meeting named Foreign Minister Shimon Peres acting prime minister.
A parking area the inquiry found uncleared
Amir had planned the killing to stop Rabin's peace policy and the Oslo process. The subsequent official inquiry found that inadequate coordination and failures in securing the parking area let him wait near the prime minister's car and approach from behind.
He was later convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment plus six years for wounding the bodyguard.
Peres served first as acting prime minister and formed a new government on 22 November; mourners gathered in the square, which was renamed Rabin Square.
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