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Rabin

[rah-been]

noun

  1. Yitzhak 1922–95, Israeli military and political leader: prime minister 1974–77 and 1992–95: Nobel Peace Prize 1994.



Rabin

/ rəˈbiːn /

noun

  1. Yitzhak . 1922–95, Israeli statesman; prime minister of Israel (1974–77; 1992–95); assassinated

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More importantly, the newly formed Palestinian Authority seemed incapable of halting Israel's gradual colonisation of the West Bank or delivering on the promise of independence and sovereignty raised so tantalisingly by Arafat's historic handshake with the former Israeli prime minister, Yizhak Rabin, on the White House lawn in September 1993.

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There were headlines around the world when, after months of secret negotiations in Norway in 1993, there was a handshake on the White House lawn between Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

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Rabin was assassinated in November 1995 by a Jewish extremist brought up in Herzliya on the Mediterranean coast who spent weekends at settlements in the West Bank.

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Dusky and sanbar sharks are known to cluster in the area, which is dominated by the Orot Rabin power station, the largest in Israel.

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Much like critic Nathan Rabin’s definition of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl type who exists “in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors,” Sylvia is there “to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures.”

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