8: Rabin Is…




Israel Story show

Summary: Who is Yitzhak Rabin today, twenty years after his murder? In this episode, we discover that for many Israelis, he represents completely different - and often conflicting - things: Rachel Rabin remembers her older brother as a shy kid, who forced her to be the goalie in neighborhood soccer games. His 'fixer,' Me'ir Palevsky, tells how a crude joke might have saved Rabin's political career. Aliza Goren, the woman closest to the scene of the assassination, talks about standing in the operating room, looking at a dead prime minister. For Etgar Keret, Rabin is a cat, and maybe that's not so strange, when we hear how others - filmmakers, educators and politicians - take Rabin's legacy in all kinds of other - no less bizarre - directions. Lastly, Naomi Chazan reads the very last note she got from Rabin - a letter from the grave.