Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin was born in 1922 in Jerusalem

Rabin was born in Jerusalem on 1 March 1922 to Nehemiah and Rosa Rabin, immigrants of the Third Aliyah. The family moved to Tel Aviv when he was one year old. His mother was an accountant and activist who sat on the Tel Aviv City Council.

He studied at the School House for Workers' Children in Tel Aviv from 1928 to 1935, then at an agricultural school at Givat Hashlosha. In 1937 he entered the Kadoorie Agricultural High School and finished in 1940. He first hoped to become an irrigation engineer.

Rabin joined the Haganah in 1936 and the Palmach in 1941. He later joined the IDF, led its Operations Directorate from 1959 to 1963, and was chief of the general staff from 1964 to 1968, including during the 1967 Six-Day War.

He was ambassador to the United States from 1968 to 1973 and became prime minister in 1974. In his first term he signed the Sinai Interim Agreement and ordered the Entebbe raid, and he resigned in 1977. He was minister of defense from 1984 to 1990.

Rabin was elected prime minister again in 1992 and signed the Oslo Accords and a peace treaty with Jordan. He shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat. On 4 November 1995 he was assassinated by Yigal Amir, who was convicted of the murder.