Yitzhak+Rabin

 Yitzhak Rabin




 * //"I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government." - // Yitzhak Rabin **

 Statement for winning

Yitzhak Rabin won the Nobel Peace prize in 1994 because he was a major peacemaker in the world. His major accomplishments were the Oslo Accords, otherwise known as the Declaration of Principles. This separated the city of Jerusalem, giving Palestine the eastern side and planned to move back to the 67 borders. He also declared a peace treaty with King Hussein of Jordan. 

Early Life Rabin and his family in 1927 ﻿Yitzhak Rabin was born in Jerusalem on March 1st 1922, his parents were Rosa and Nechemia Rabin. His family moved shortly after he was born to Tel-Aviv, Israel and went to an elementary school called Beit Hinuch Leyaldei Ovdim, which was a workers children school. His mother descended from a wealthy Russian family while his father was from a poor family from Ukraine. Yitzhak's family was often involved in public relations. His mother was involved in Tel Aviv's municipal council while his father was in the Metal worker's union. His family sought that work was extremely important, but so was family time so on every Friday his family spent time together. Though in his biography it states that Rabin was a “Withdrawn, bashful child, it was not a religious home". It was imbued with the pride of being Jewish”. When he was around 15, he switched to an agricultural school called Kadourie Agricultural school. He decided that he wanted to be a farmer, so he would be able to support his country this way. Yitzhak always had his priorities focused on his school work and never even thought about girls. He developed a strong work ethic because he originally failed his math exam to get into the school, so he worked hard and took it again so he passed. He joined the Agricultural boarding school in 1936. When the Arab attacks started, his school trained the children to use weapons in case of an attack, so he gained a respect for the military. In school he played football, his positions were keeper and center scout.



 Later Life and Development Yitzhak Rabin wanted to be a farmer and actually went to an agricultural school when he was 15. He let his schoolwork take priority instead of anything else, even girls. After his Agricultural school closed down, he moved to Kibbutz Ginossar, which is on the sea of Galilee where he was in the agriculture field. He later decided to be a guard, then an auxiliary officer. When WWII started, he went back to school and graduated as a top student. During the war, he found it fitting that he should join the military, so he joined a communal training group. He later became a commander of the Haganah witch is “the underground military arm of the Jewish Agency in Palestine. Afterward he started his career in the national militia. He was in the military for a long time after this.



 ﻿Rabin at age 20 Influence

Yitzhak Rabin was very involved in the political stability of Israel. He was involved in Israel's national security. Rabin was often enthralled at Arab countries because the countries never accepted any peace plan proposed by Rabin and were always extremely stubborn. In 1992, He won the leadership of the labor party. In conclusion, he was a major political leader of the country of Israel and helped the nation out tremendously.

Arab/Israeli conflict

Rabin was involved with the Arab/Israeli conflict more than any other conflict. He wanted to solve the entire conflict, but to have peace within the two territories. He understood the Palestinian viewpoint unlike many other past prime ministers. Rabin was actually against the jewish settlements in the West Bank. He also wanted the most peace possible, so he separated the Hamas in the Gaza Strip. He respected the Palestinians while favoring his fellow Jewish citizens.

 Six Day War

In 1967, Yitzhak Rabin led Israel into the Six day war against the surrounding Arab countries. He delivered the blow to the countries involved in the war. Rabin helped the military nearly triple the size of Israel. When all the countries attacked Israel, he fended them off and absolutely destroyed the countries. Agricultural School <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">All of Rabins childhood, he wanted to become a farmer when he was older, so after middle school, he decided that he wanted to go to a boarding school. The school was in Tel Aviv, called Kadouri Agricultural school. At first he failed the mathematics test to get in to the school, Rabin was shocked. After this happened, he studied tremendously so he could retake the test. He passed the second time and after this he was a hard worker of everything that he did. <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px;">Rosa Rabin 1890-1937 <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">When Rabin was a teenager, his mother began to have heart ailments. His mother later experienced heart attacks and cancer came later. Yitzhak and his sister were told to never disturb their mother, and were in constant fear of her death. His father gave mass amounts of money to try to cure his wife, and it actually put the family in a lot of debt. She died at Tel Aviv's hospital with Yitzhak presence. This changed his life because he understood death at a young age and encouraged him while making him stronger He was changed greatly by his mother's death. He understood death from a young age and this made him stronger in the long run. After he witnessed his mother's death from a young perspective, it gave him a strong work ethic in everything he did. Which gave him motivation to exceed in academics as well as in the military.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">On November 4th, 1995, at 21:30, Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated. He was attending a rally in support of the recently signed Oslo Accords at the Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv, Israel. Yigal Amir, the assassin was a right wing zionest extremist.

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<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">The assassin who murdered Rabin's name is Igor Amir, his goal was to "Politically Silence" Rabin. Amir was a fellow Jew, and interrogators asked him "How can you kill a fellow Jew? an old man? an Israeli hero? a Prime Minister?" Rabin was assassinated at a Peace Rally in his home city of Tel Aviv. Theme <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Yitzhak Rabin dealt with the Arab/Israeli conflict. All of his work was related to the conflict. This took up most of his time because many countries don't believe Israel should even exist, so Rabin has to defend Israel from attacks, to do this he created peace plans. Once the great migration of Jews occurred, the Palestinians were pissed off at the Jews, and they have been fighting ever since. Every military or political operation that he has taken part in was a result of the Arab/Palestinean conflict. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">Bibliography: Bard, Mitchell. "The 1967 Six-Day War." Jewish Virtual Library. American/Israeli Cooperative Enterprize, 2011. Web. 18 Jan 2011. <http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/67_War.html>.

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Jack Mewha