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Annual Rabin memorial canceled at family’s request due to war

A separate memorial for the late Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi was also dropped for the same reason.

Yitzhak Rabin
Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin and his wife, Leah, arrive in the United States at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland in September 1986. Photo by Sgt. Robert G. Clambus via Wikimedia Commons.

The annual state ceremony for assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin will not be held this month due to the ongoing war against Hamas, the second such cancellation in as many years.

The decision was taken at the request of family members who had appealed to Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana to nix the event.

Last year’s ceremony was also canceled due to the war.

Far-right extremist Yigal Amir assassinated Rabin on Nov. 4, 1995, following a rally in support of the Oslo Accords in Tel Aviv.

Rehavam Ze'evi
Israeli general, politician and historian Rehavam (“Gandhi”) Ze’evi on Sept. 10, 2001. Credit: Flash90.

A separate memorial for the late Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi was also canceled at his family’s request.

Terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine gunned down Ze’evi—popularly known by the nickname “Gandhi”—at the Hyatt Hotel on Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, on Oct. 17, 2001.

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