Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day 1998-5759
Three Years since the Assassination
Commemoration Activities
Israel from Past to Future
A MEMORIAL AND A WISH
This activity, based on a series of questions, is designed to draw together
various elements of Yitzhak Rabin's life as each of us perceives it and
may wish to present it in a memorial ceremony. It should follow a session
dealing with the interaction between Rabin's life and Israel, such as
the second in this series (above).
The activity may be conducted verbally, or as a combination or oral and
written or graphic responses, depending on the purpose, the time available
and the formality of the setting.
1. Yitzhak Rabin was many things in his
life.
Which image is strongest in your mind - and which do you think is strongest
in the mind of the world?
Here are a number of possibilities:
· an idealistic young pioneer
· the victorious figure of the Six Day War
· the Prime Minister who made peace with Arafat and with Jordan
· Noa's grandfather
· the Prime Minister who was assassinated
· other
2. In what ways was Yitzhak Rabin a typical Israeli of the first fifty
years of the State?
3. How do you interpret the social and political processes - and the
"demonization" - which led to the assassination of Israel's national leader?
4. How do you believe we can ensure this never happens again?
5. With which other leading Israeli figures would you class Yitzhak
Rabin, from politics and Israeli society in general?
6. Do you feel Yitzhak Rabin made a difference of added value to Israel?
7. What is the legacy of Yitzhak Rabin to the world, and the Jewish
world in particular?
8. Three years on, what is your wish for Israel?
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