Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin was born in Jerusalem and became a career soldier, serving as chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces during the 1967 Six-Day War. He entered politics with the Labor Party and served two terms as prime minister. In his second term he signed the Oslo Accords with the Palestine Liberation Organization, a mutual recognition and framework for Palestinian self-rule that won him a share of the Nobel Peace Prize alongside Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat. The accords were fiercely opposed by parts of the Israeli right and the settler movement. In November 1995 a religious nationalist Israeli opposed to the peace process assassinated him at a Tel Aviv rally, a blow from which the process never fully recovered.