On the 100th anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin's birth, his sister recalls: "He took care of me, I loved him very much"
Rachel Yaakov-Rabin, 97, said in a conversation with Walla!
Because her brother, the prime minister, seems happy to her from the public support he received at the peace rally in Tel Aviv, at the end of which he was assassinated 26 years ago.
"He was a humble man, very decent, not 'me and me and me'. I'm good to remember him. I learned not to take anything for granted."
Yifat Rosenberg
01/03/2022
Tuesday, 01 March 2022, 17:10 Updated: 21:17
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In the video: Video from various periods Rabin as chief of staff and defense minister (Photo: Ministry of Defense spokeswoman)
Rachel Yaakov-Rabin, Yitzhak Rabin's younger sister, says today (Tuesday) that he seems happy with the presence of the masses at the peace rally in Tel Aviv, which was eventually murdered.
"He was murdered the night he received such mass support that he never dreamed of. I was at home with a personal and I said, 'Look how happy he is.' I believed in her too, "she said in a conversation with Walla!" "I'm happy to remember him. I learned not to take anything for granted."
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the prime minister and former chief of staff, who was assassinated 26 years ago. And again in the early 1990s. During his second term, the peace agreement with Jordan was signed, as well as the Oslo Accords. For peace, not for violence. "
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Rachel Yaakov-Rabin at the memorial service for Yitzhak and Leah Rabin on Mount Herzl, two and a half years ago (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Rachel Rabin-Yaakov was born in Tel Aviv three years after her older brother.
She is an educator, one of the founders of Kibbutz Menara in the north.
Five years ago, the kibbutz movement recommended that it be awarded the Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement.
"Do you think that if he had not been murdered our reality would have looked different? I do not like to deal with which, I do not know, not which - what was," she told Walla!
Yaakov-Rabin.
"I think Yitzhak was actually at the summit of the two authorities in the country. In the army he reached the summit - he was chief of staff, in the open public - he was prime minister.
Was at the height of the positions in the State of Israel.
To me he was a brother who since I stood my ground I felt he was watching over me.
The difference between us is three years, and in childhood it is a lot between the ages of seven and ten.
I really, really loved him all those years ago. "
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She described her brother as a man "loyal to himself, a humble man, not ostentatious, not 'I am I', very decent," as she put it.
"I loved him very much. We grew up in a home with values passed on to us, [of] what is important and what is not important, honesty and fairness, loyalty to the way. As a girl I felt he was watching over me. My mother died at a young age, I was 12 and he was 15. There was a special bond between him "Among his mother, she valued him and supported him. After she died, he said that until then and since he had not cried as he had cried when she died."
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