Muerte isaac rabin biography death

Rabin later died in surgery at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv. The year-old prime minister was walking to his car when he was shot in the arm and the back by Yigal Amir, a year-old Jewish law student who had connections to the far-right Jewish group Eyal. As prime minister, he conducted the negotiations that resulted in a cease-fire with Syria and the military disengagement agreement between Israel and Egypt.

In , Rabin resigned as prime minister over a scandal involving his holding of bank accounts in the United States in violation of Israeli law. In , he signed the historic Israeli-Palestinian Declaration of Principles with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and in concluded a formal peace agreement with the Palestinians. One year later, Rabin was assassinated.

Peres succeeded him as prime minister.

We have lost a member of our family in the loss of Yitzhak Rabin.

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