The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

Abstract

Introduction: the writing was on the wall Yoram Peri Part I. The Road to Rabin Square: 1. The assassination: causes, meaning, outcomes Yoram Peri 2. One more political murder by Jews Nachman Ben-Yehuda 3. Israel's radical right and the countdown to the Rabin assassination Ehud Sprinzak 4. Self-destructive processes in Israeli politics Israel Orbach Part II. The Public Reaction: 5. 'Let us search our path': religious Zionism after the assassination Aviezer Ravitzky 6. An illusion of belonging: reactions of the Arab population to Rabin's assassination Majid Al-Haj 7. The media and the Rabin myth: reconstruction of the Israeli collective identity Yoram Peri Part III. The Grief and the Mourning: 8. The many voices of Israeli youth: multiple interpretations of Rabin's assassination Tamar Rapoport 9. Rabin's burial ground: revisiting the Zionist myth Haim Hazan 10. The cultural and social construction of mourning patterns Eliezer Witztum and Ruth Malkinson 11. Rhetoric on the roads of Israel: the assassination and political bumper stickers Linda-Renee Bloch 12. The past in our present: the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and John F. Kennedy Barbie Zelizer Part IV. The Ongoing Crisis of Legitimacy: 13. The latitude of acceptance: Israelis' attitudes toward political protest before and after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin Tamar Hermann and Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar 14. At the last moment Gadi Yatziv 15. Rabin: between commemoration and denial Yoram Peri Index.