Yitzhak Rabin

Memorial Resources on the Web

Note: Many of the websites established in 1995-1996 have been withdrawn, but others have been updated. Below are the best entries to operative web pages, although some of the subsidiary links may not be current.

Primary Sources

The Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies:
English
http://www.friendsofrabin.org/
http://www.rabincenter.org.il/
Hebrew
http://center.rabincenter.org.il/
http://www.rabincenter.org.il/

The Knesset:
Yitzhak Rabin - In Memoriam
Hebrew, English, Arabic
http://www.knesset.gov.il/rabin/rabin.htm

The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs:
Biography and Key Speeches
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Facts%20About%20Israel/State/Yitzhak%20Rabin

Nobel Peace Prize:
http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1994/

News/Memorial Features & Related Information

CNN:
Assassination and Funeral – documents in text and media; extensive article collection.
http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9511/rabin/umbrella/

Jerusalem Post:
Remembering Rabin
http://info.jpost.com/C005/Supplements/Rabin/

Educational Website Memorial Features

Amit:
Rabin Memorial Day – online exercises, group projects & discussion, links
http://www.amit.org.il/learning/english/Rabin/index.htm

Amal:
Amal Remembers Yitzhak Rabin and His Struggle for Peace – Collection of memorial resources with: biography; links to all the eulogies & speeches; group exercise in remembering; well-organized links to peace songs and peace projects worldwide
http://www.amalnet.k12.il/meida/english/rabin/engi0079.htm

ETNI:
Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day – lesson plan, memorial project, article, links
http://www.etni.org.il/holidays/Rabin.htm

Jewish Agency for Israel, Education Department
Video Conference with Professor Shlomo Ben Ami
http://www.jafi.org.il/education/actual/rabin/videoconf/index.html

Snunit:
Tears of Shock – Memorial exhibition of Israeli youth in mourning for Rabin
http://www.snunit.k12.il/rabin/english.html

Speeches, Memorial Readings, etc.

MFA:

Official speeches, excluding Knesset speeches
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Facts%20About%20Israel/State/Yitzhak%20Rabin
A lot of ideas on hope and strength - memorial speech by PM Barak, 2000
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Speeches+by+Israeli+leaders/2000/
Address+by+PM+Barak+on+the+Fifth+Anniversary+of+th.htm
Poem/letter to Leah Rabin
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Modern%20History/
Historic%20Events/Yitzhak%20Rabin%201922-1995

The Education Department website, JAFI:
1. Educational responses to the Assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in Tel Aviv [1995]
http://www.jafi.org.il/education/actual/rabin/rabin1.html
2. Yitzhak Rabin's last speech at the Rally for Peace, Tel Aviv, November 4, 1995
3. Yitzhak Rabin's Acceptance Speech - Honorary Doctorate, 1967
4. Excerpts from major political speeches by Yitzhak Rabin
5. From Kaf-Tet to Shloshim: Thoughts on Yitzhak Rabin
by members of the Jewish Agency and others
6. The Course of Peace - short quotations by Yitzhak Rabin and eulogy excerpts
7. Two psalms