'''Yitzhak Rabin''' (יִצְחָק רַבִּין) (1922 - 1995) was the [[Labour Party (Israel)|Labour]] Prime Minister of [[Israel]] from 1992-1995. He was instrumental in bringing about the [[Oslo Accords]] and due to their signing shared the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] with [[Shimon Peres]] and [[Yassir Arafat]]. He was assassinated in on November 4, 1995 by a right-wing Jewish Israeli citizen because of his signing of the peace accords.
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[[File:Rabin, Clinton and Yasser Arafat.jpg|thumb|[[President Clinton]] with Yitzhak Rabin and [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] Chairman [[Yassir Arafat]] on the South Lawn, September 13, 1993.]]
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'''Yitzhak Rabin''' (יִצְחָק רַבִּין) (1922 - 1995) was the [[Labour Party (Israel)|Labour]] Prime Minister of [[Israel]] from 1992-1995.
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During the [[Second World War]] Rabin fought against the [[Vichy regime]] in Syria and Lebanon and after the beginning of the [[1948 Arab-Israeli War]] he was responsible for the defense of [[Jerusalem]]. During the [[Six-Day War]] in 1967 Rabin was chief of staff of Israel’s army.<ref>https://www.britannica.com/biography/Yitzhak-Rabin</ref>
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He was instrumental in bringing about the [[Oslo Accords]] and due to their signing shared the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] with [[Shimon Peres]] and [[Yassir Arafat]]. He was assassinated in on November 4, 1995 by a right-wing Jewish Israeli citizen because of his signing of the peace accords.