Annual Rabin rally is canceled
Jewish Journal
September 12, 2011
The annual rally marking the anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin will not be held this November for the first time in 16 years.
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Rob Eshman: June 5, 1967
Rob Eshman
June 1, 2011
Levi Eshkol was one of the greatest Israeli heroes you never heard of. Eshkol was Israel’s prime minister during the Six Day War, which began 44 years ago this week, on June 5, 1967.\n
With eye on long term, Israel plans for ‘leapfrog’ growth to stem brain drain
Jewish Journal
January 18, 2011
It was at a conference 15 years ago in the raw months following Yitzhak Rabin\’s assassination that an unlikely Israeli trio — a young Navy officer, a leading businesswoman and a senior bureaucrat — hatched a plan for Israel\’s future. It wasn\’t exactly a plan for the future, but a plan to plan for the country\’s future in an entirely new way: one focused on long-term strategic thinking to propel Israel into the world\’s top 15 socioeconomic powers. Last week, the goal of becoming a nation with one of the highest GDPs — the type of dramatic \”leapfrog\” growth that would see incomes and other quality-of-life metrics boosted across the socioeconomic divide — went from an idea to headline news when the goal was adopted as policy by the Israeli government.
Begin, Rabin to appear on new Israeli bills
Jewish Journal
December 20, 2010
The images of the late Israeli Prime Ministers Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Rabin will appear on new Israeli currency.\n
Israel marking Rabin assassination
Jewish Journal
October 19, 2010
The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin \”must not be forgiven or forgotten,\” Israeli President Shimon Peres said at a candlelighting ceremony marking the 15th anniversary of the tragedy.
Rabin memorial rally draws 100,000, Coulter controversy escalates
Jewish Journal
November 9, 2007
News briefs.
Wife of Rabin’s Assassin Discusses Relationship, Life
Michal Ben-Horin
April 6, 2007
Her smile and soft voice are immediately appealing. Offered some coffee and cake, Larissa Trimbobler-Amir accepts with a gentle gratefulness. She has come to talk about her marriage to Yigal Amir, who is serving a life sentence for the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.
Community Briefs
Nancy Sokoler Steiner
December 8, 2005
A lively, heartfelt tribute to former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin brought more than 400 people to the University of Judaism to mark the 10th year since an assassin took his life.
When California voters passed a $3 billion stem cell research initiative, they not only opened the door to medical advances but also to a collaboration with scientists from Israel, which is an established leader in the field.
To seed that partnership, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center recently hosted a two-day symposium that attracted more than 300 physicians, scientists, bioethicists and entrepreneurs.
With Us — Always
Rob Eshman
November 10, 2005
The communitywide memorial rally held in Los Angeles just days after the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was heart-wrenching, tearful, agonizing and awful.\n\nBut it was also good.
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