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8: Rabin Is…

Israel Story

Israel Story

Judaism, Palestine, Jewish, Stories, Religion & Spirituality, Israel

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2015

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Rabin is a symbol. An icon. But in Israel of 2015, twenty years later, it isn't so simple to understand what he really stands for anymore.

Who is Yitzhak Rabin today, twenty years after his murder? In this episode, we discover that for many Israelis, he represents completely different – and often conflicting – things: Rachel Rabin remembers her older brother as a shy kid, who forced her to be the goalie in neighborhood soccer games. His ‘fixer,’ Me’ir Palevsky, tells how a crude joke might have saved Rabin’s political career. Aliza Goren, the woman closest to the scene of the assassination, talks about standing in the operating room, looking at a dead prime minister. For Etgar Keret, Rabin is a cat, and maybe that’s not so strange, when we hear how others – filmmakers, educators and politicians – take Rabin’s legacy in all kinds of other – no less bizarre – directions. Lastly, Naomi Chazan reads the very last note she got from Rabin – a letter from the grave.

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Just about two months before November 4th 1995 I began seventh grade.

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And in Israel that's the start of junior high. So new school, new

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building, all the other kids are new too. You have to figure out really quickly which group

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to join. The science nerds, the hippies, the nirvana fans, you do your best to score some

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goals in soccer games during recess because that's the surest way to become popular.

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Anyway, hectic times. So I was really looking forward to November 4th, it was a Saturday,

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because my entire old class from sixth grade were gone to different junior highs, but it just felt familiar and right the minute we met up at synagogue that morning.

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We slipped right back into our old roles with all the same dynamics which had been established

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since kindergarten.

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