Assassination

Iranian plot to assassinate Israeli nuclear scientist results in four convictions

Prosecutors allege that an individual contacted by Iran was told to form a cell to kill a scientist and his family. 

An illustration of an assassin holding a silenced handgun.
A demonstrator holds a sign of Thomas Matthew Crooks outside of a security zone checkpoint by the Fiserv Forum as the RNC continues on July 17, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

New information uncovered on Trump assassination attempt in Butler, says A-G Blanche

IRGC forces open fire on Iranian protestors.

Kurdish group kills Sunni ‘traitor’ working with IRGC, source tells ‘Post’

Charlie and Erika Kirk in Jerusalem in March of 2019

Remembering Charlie Kirk — One year later


Grapevine: Yitzhak Rabin: An appreciation

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

Portrait of Yitzhak Rabin

Hostage families, fallen soldier relatives, urge national unity at Rabin memorial ceremony

In the shadow of Rabin’s assassination, youth movements gathered to call for healing and national unity in Israel.

Merav Leshem Gonen, mother of freed hostage Romi, addresses the crowd at a ceremony commemorating the 30th anniversary of then-prime minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination, Mount Herzl, Jerusalem, November 5, 2025.

Mother of former hostage urges putting politics aside ahead of Rabin memorial rally - interview

“It’s not the time to talk about policy, but rather to pause and feel the nation’s pain, and look at the future," Meirav Leshem Gonen told The Jerusalem Post.

A rally marking 30 years since the assassination of late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Tel Avivs Rabin Square on November 1, 2025, Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on November 4, 1995 by an Israeli extremist during a pro-peace rally in Tel Aviv.

Revisiting JPost's coverage of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, 30 years later

The following is the full text of the article published on the front page of The Jerusalem Post on the morning of November 5, 1995, following the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

The Jerusalem Post's front cover on the Rabin assassination

On This Day: Israeli former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinated 30 years ago

Rabin was shot by far-Right Jew Yigal Amir following the prime minister's agreement to cede Israeli territory to the Palestinian Liberation Organization in an attempt to achieve peace.

Yitzhak Rabin (1922 - 1995) making an address, July 1974.

'Judaism is not extremism': Israelis remember prime minister Rabin 30 years after assassination

"Here we must say – this [extremism] is not Judaism. The extremists do not represent it," Opposition leader Yair Lapid said in his address at the memorial.

Israelis gather in Tel Aviv to commemorate 30 years since the assination of Yitzhak Rabin. November 1, 2025.

Yitzhak Rabin assassination 30 years on: A lesson on condemning intolerance - opinion

Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination was an attack on the very foundation of Judaism by an observant Jew, a product of Religious Zionism’s educational and religious institutions. 

Prime minister Yitzhak Rabin speaks at a rally in support of the Oslo Accords, prior to his assassination at Tel Aviv’s Kings of Israel Square (later renamed Rabin Square), Nov. 4, 1995.

Is a political assassination in Israel possible today? - opinion

Could a political assassination still occur in Israel today? Has the danger passed? Thirty years have gone by, full of fierce internal struggles, yet without an outbreak of extreme violence.

PEOPLE VISIT the memorial site for prime minister Yitzhak Rabin at the scene of his assassination in 1995, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, on November 4, 2024.

My Word: Remembering Israel's assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, 30 years on

Yitzhak Rabin’s legacy has been eroded over the past three decades, but the lesson about the dangers of political extremism must not be allowed to die.

A RALLY IN 2015 at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv marking 20 years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin.

Half of Israelis fear add'l political assassinations, 30 years after Rabin's murder

Thirty years after Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, a new survey finds 52% of Israelis fear another political killing, and most say incitement is unchecked.

YITZHAK RABIN and Yasser Arafat, under the gaze of then-US president Bill Clinton, sign a peace protocol on the White House lawn in 1993.