Leah Rabin
Leah Rabin | |
|---|---|
לאה רבין | |
Spouse of the Prime Minister of Israel | |
| In role 13 July 1992 – 4 November 1995 | |
| Prime Minister | Yitzhak Rabin |
| Preceded by | Shulamit Shamir |
| Succeeded by | Sonia Peres |
| In role 3 June 1974 – 20 June 1977 | |
| Prime Minister | Yitzhak Rabin |
| Succeeded by | Aliza Begin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Leah Schloßberg 28 April 1928 Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia) |
| Died | 12 November 2000 (aged 72) Petah Tikva, Israel |
| Spouse | |
| Children | Dalia and Yuval |
| Occupation | Teacher [1] |
Leah Rabin (Hebrew: לאה רבין, née Schloßberg; 28 April 1928 – 12 November 2000) was the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in 1995.
Biography
Leah Rabin was born Leah Schloßberg in
Her husband became Prime Minister in 1974 following
When Rabin reached the podium "35 delegations abandoned the room" with hundreds of delegates from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Soviet bloc. Rabin had to wait for the "exodus to finish" to begin speaking. The violence against Israel made them fear that the Arab countries and other Non-Aligned Movement countries delegations questioned the credentials of Israel to participate in the Conference. Finally, the challenge turned to be only a rumor, but the Declaration of Mexico draft of 30 June already included a call to eliminate Zionism.[citation needed]
Later, the UN General Assembly adopted, by the impulse of Arab countries, the Soviet bloc and the Non-Aligned Movement, the 3379 resolution, which considered Zionism as racism and compared it with South Africa's Apartheid. The conformation of that group of countries followed the logic of Cold War confrontations. The bloc voting produced a majority in the UN that organized to systematically condemn Israel in resolutions such as: 3089, 3236, 32/40, among other.[citation needed]
Three years after Yitzhak Rabin's appointment, in 1977, a US bank account (illegal at that time in Israel) held by Leah was exposed by Haaretz journalist Dan Margalit. As a result, her husband decided to take responsibility, resigned from office.[6] This came to be known as the Dollar Account affair.
Rabin supported the peace efforts of her husband in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and worked further for a solution after his assassination.[4] She wrote a book about her memories of her husband, which was released in 1997, under the name Rabin: Our Life, His Legacy.
She supported
Death
Leah Rabin was diagnosed with lung cancer and died in Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva in 2000 at the age of 72 and was buried in Mount Herzl in Jerusalem beside her husband Yitzhak Rabin, a few days after the fifth anniversary of her husband's assassination.[6]
Family
The Rabins' daughter
References
- ^ "Leah Rabin; Activist, Israeli Leader's Widow". Los Angeles Times. 13 November 2000.
- ISBN 0399142177. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- ^ Rabin 1997, pp. 42–45.
- ^ a b "Leah Rabin, widow of slain Israeli leader, dies of cancer". Bangor Daily News. AP. 12 November 2000. Retrieved 5 September 2011.
- ISBN 978-607-8564-17-0. Archived from the originalon 2022-04-10. Retrieved 2021-10-28.
- ^ a b Franklin, David. "Leah Rabin dies at 72". Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 12 May 2008. Retrieved 28 December 2007.
- ^ "Rabin's widow tells Israelis: Vote for Peres", CNN, 30 May 1996.
External links
Media related to Lea Rabin at Wikimedia Commons
