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ZFA President Jeremy Leibler writes in today’s The Australian Jewish News:

“THE assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, now a quarter of a century ago, had a profound impact on Jews and non-Jews all over the world. The shock and horror of the news, when it broke, made it one of those moments forever etched in our individual and collective psyches, permanently engraved on our historical memories.

I remember the day vividly. In the early hours of a Sunday morning, the phone rang, waking up the house. It was an Australian journalist seeking a comment from my father about the assassination of the prime minister in Israel by a Jewish Israeli.

I was an idealistic 15-year-old religious Zionist, a passionate member of Bnei Akiva, a religious Zionist youth movement and a student at Leibler Yavneh College, a religious Zionist school. To be told that the sitting Israeli prime minister had been assassinated, not by terrorists, but by a fellow religious Zionist Jew, brought my world crashing down.

I couldn’t absorb how this man, this murderer, had contrived – and fully embraced – a religious justification for such extreme and fanatically evil action. Yigal Amir was one of us and had been brought up in a tradition that was not dissimilar to mine....”

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Reflections on the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

ajn.timesofisrael.com

'Twenty-five years after the tragedy of Yitzhak Rabin's assassination, the silent majority must not be silent'.

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