Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinated in Tel Aviv 20 years ago this hour (Nov 4 1995)


Video: 'Middle East Peace Signing Ceremony'

(Saturday, November 4, 1995, 9:30 p.m. IST) — Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 73, was assassinated tonight by by Yigal Amir, a radical right-wing Orthodox Jew who opposed the signing of the Oslo Accords, after speaking at a festive peace rally at the Kings of Israel Square (now Rabin Square) in Tel Aviv.