Lea Rabin (April 8, 1928 in Königsberg, East Prussia, — November 12, 2000 in Petach Tikvah, Israel) was the wife of Prime MinisterYitzhak Rabin. April 8 is the 98th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (99th in leap years). ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Locator map on an international level map of Kaliningrad Oblast Kaliningrad (Russian: Калининград), seaport city, capital and main city of the Kaliningrad Oblast, a small Russian exclave between Poland and Lithuania with access to the Baltic Sea. ... East Prussia (German: Ostpreu en; Polish: Prusy Wschodnie; Russian: Восточная Пруссия — Vostochnaya Prussiya) was a province of Kingdom of Prussia, situated on the territory of former Ducal Prussia. ... November 12 is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 49 days remaining. ... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A prime minister may be either: the chief or leading member of the cabinet of the top-level government in a country having a parliamentary system of government; or the official, in countries with a semi-presidential system of government, appointed to manage the civil service and execute the directives... Yitzhak Rabin Yitzhak Rabin (Hebrew יִצְחָק רַבִּין) (March 1, 1922 – November 4, 1995) was an Israeli politician and military general. ...
In 1933, she emigrated with her family to Palestine where she met her future husband Yitzhak Rabin at school. They married in 1948, the year of Israel's independence. 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The term Palestine may refer to: Palestine: A geographical region in the Middle East, centered on Jerusalem. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Lea Rabin supported the peace efforts of her husband in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and worked further for a solution after his assassination. However, a few years after her husband's death, she was diagnosed with cancer and died in 2000 at the age of 72. Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip are at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ... When normal cells are damaged or old they undergo apoptosis; cancer cells, however, avoid apoptosis. ...
Rabin, 72, had been the torchbearer for her husband's Israeli-Palestinian peace policies since he was shot to death in 1995 by a Jewish ultra-conservative who opposed the late prime minister's peacemaking efforts.
Rabin's harshest critics were the supporters of hardline leader Benjamin Netanyahu, whom she accused of fanning the hatred that led to her husband's murder at a Tel Aviv peace rally.
She was born Leah Schlossberg on April 8, 1928 to well-to-do parents in Koenigsberg, a town in what was then Germany and later became part of Russia.
Yitzchak Rabin was born in Jerusalem on March 1, 1922, to Rosa and Nehemia Rabin, pioneers of the Third Aliyah.
Rabin established the IDF training doctrine, and coined the command slogan "Follow Me!" He developed the combat strategy based on movement and surprise, which was successfully implemented in the Six Day War.
Rabin was laid to rest at the age of 73, by a stunned and grieving nation, in the section for Great Men of the Nation at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, in the presence of many world leaders.
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