In 1995, Israel buried Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by a fellow Jew who opposed peace with Palestinians.
Clinton and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin were icons of the Israeli peace movement.
Previous prime ministers, including the late Yitzhak Rabin, did bold deeds while relying on that dialectic.
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Many of Israel's greatest political personalities, from Yitzhak Rabin to Ariel Sharon, came out of the military establishment.
The Yitzhak Rabin pre-military academy in Jaffa is run by the kibbutz movement.
As prime minister in the late 1990s he failed to build on the opening initiated by the assassinated Yitzhak Rabin.
For examples, look at Mary Robinson in Northern Ireland, Henry Kissinger in Vietnam and Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin in Israel-Palestine.
In so doing, it brought in Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres and brought the country the Oslo process and Yasser Arafat in Ramallah.
Gingrich had told reporters Wednesday that he had felt snubbed by Clinton and his staff when they traveled to Israel for Yitzhak Rabin's funeral.
In November, a religious fanatic assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
In his relations with Clinton, Barak hopes for what his mentor, assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, had achieved--direct, instant and frequent access to the President.
Yitzhak Rabin used reasoning that chillingly summed up the government's approach.
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Prime Minister Shimon Peres has said he is committed to the peace process set in motion by his predecessor Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in November.
Mr Yakobson and Mr Rubinstein are both Israelis, the former a historian, the latter a professor of law who served in the cabinet of Yitzhak Rabin.
Indeed, Barak has gone so far that Yitzhak Rabin's widow said he'd be "turning in his grave" if he could see what concessions Barak had offered.
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Joined by Peres, Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Obama also visited the grave of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in 1995.
As foreign minister under Yitzhak Rabin, Peres negotiated his deal with the PLO behind the public's back, and behind Rabin's back - and against their clear opposition.
In 1995, Yigal Amir, who said he was acting on God's orders, assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as he left a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
In each of its wars, Israel has been united and galvanized by charismatic leaders who came to the fore David Ben-Gurion, Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin, Golda Meir .
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat shared the 1994 peace prize with late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and former Foreign Minister Shimon Peres for their Middle East peace accords.
Mr Obama then walked to the grave of Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated by a right-wing extremist after a peace rally in support of the Oslo Accords in 1995.
Following the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and a series of suicide bombings, in 1996 Netanyahu was elected prime minister, the youngest man or woman ever to hold the post.
President Bill Clinton wrote in his memoirs that he loved Israel's former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as he had "rarely loved another man, " and was captivated by Israel's heroic struggle.
Bill Clinton got Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat to shake hands on the White House lawn, but no peace, and no prize, followed the unhappy Camp David summit of 2000.
When the PA was established in 1994, then prime minister Yitzhak Rabin argued that the PLO-Fatah shared Israel's interest in fighting Hamas because Hamas constituted a threat to its authority.
Syria contends that the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin agreed during lower-level peace talks that stalled in 1996 to return the Golan, a water-rich region that overlooks the upper Jordan River valley.
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Israel's acceptance of the 1993 Oslo peace agreement, they argue, was at least partly due to Yitzhak Rabin's realisation that Israel could not for ever ensure that its enemies were denied nuclear weapons.
In 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin pleaded for time and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat pleaded for money when they shared a platform in Paris to receive a peace prize from the United Nations.
After fleeing the war in Lebanon in 1983, Arafat started to transform himself into a statesman in Tunisia, leading to a famous handshake with the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on the White House lawn in 1993.
Some misty-eyed commentators hark back to the honest days of the 1970s, when the revelation that his wife held a few thousand dollars in a then-illegal overseas bank account was enough to make the prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, resign.
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