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The Zionist
Time Machine

Every year in Israel's history is a station. Turn the dial and hear what was on the air — original archival photos, voices from the radio, the story, and the song of that year.

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1995

The Square

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated at the end of the peace rally in Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv.

  1. In a double suicide bombing at the Beit Lid junction, twenty-one soldiers and one civilian were murdered.
  2. The Interim Agreement between Israel and the Palestinians – "Oslo II" – was signed in Washington.
  3. Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir, a young Jewish extremist who opposed the Oslo Accords, at the end of the peace rally in Tel Aviv.
  4. Rabin was laid to rest on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, in the presence of leaders from around the world, among them King Hussein and President Clinton.
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