Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Monument,Tel Aviv Israel
Zahi Shaked A tour guide in Israel and his camera
zahigo25@walla.com 972-54-6905522 tel
סיור עם מורה הדרך ומדריך הטיולים צחי שקד 0546905522
My name is Zahi Shaked
In 2000 I became a registered liscenced tourist guide.
My dedication in life is to pass on the ancient history of the Holy Land.
Following upon many years of travel around the world, which was highlighted by a very exciting emotional and soul-searching meeting with the Dalai Lama, I realized that I had a mission. To pass on the the history of the Holy Land, its religions, and in particular, the birth and development of Christianity.
In order to fulfill this calling in the best way possible, I studied in depth, visited, and personally experienced each and every important site of the ancient Christians. I studied for and received my first bachelors degree in the ancient history of the Holy Land, and am presently completing my studies for my second degree.(Masters)
Parralel to my studies, and in order to earn a living, I was employed for many years in advertising. What I learned there was how to attract the publics attention, generate and, increase interest, and assimilate information. All this I use as tools to describe, explain and deepen the interest in the sites that we visit. From my experience, I have learned that in this way, the Holy Land becomes more than just history, and that the large stones that we see scattered about in dissaray, join together one by one until they become - a Byzantine Church. This also happens when I lead a group of Pilgrims in the Steps of Jesus. We climb to the peak of Mount Precipice, glide over the land to the Sea of Galilee, land on the water and see the miracle which enfolds before us. This is a many faceted experience. Not only history which you will remember and cherish, but an experience which I hope will be inplanted in your hearts and minds, and will accompany you all the days of your life.
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Yitzhak Rabin memorial rally in Tel Aviv
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ISRAEL: PROMINENT FIGURES ATTEND MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR RABIN
Hebrew/Nat
Army generals, Cabinet ministers and prominent figures joined the family of Israel's assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at a memorial service Sunday, one week after his killing.
Conspicuously absent from Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem were the country's opposition politicians, whom Mrs. Rabin has blamed for encouraging the climate of rancour in which her husband was killed.
Yitzhak Rabin's son Yuval recited the Kaddish, the traditional Jewish prayer of mourning at Mount Herzl cemetery as his mother Leah, her eyes filled with tears, shook her head in grief.
Several hundred mourners, including acting Prime Minister Shimon Peres, Cabinet ministers and close aides, also attended.
Rabin was buried last Monday with full military honors before hundreds of world leaders.
Thousands of Israelis have flocked to the grave each day since, turning it into a mountain of flowers.
His grandchildren, Yonatan and Noa, leaned on each other throughout the ceremony, wiping back tears.
As a tribute to the Israeli leader, the name of the plaza where he died has been changed from Kings of Israel Square to Yitzhak Rabin Square.
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis are expected at a rally there later and an unprecedented security operation is underway in the city in preparation.
Police units have been drafted in from other cities, and all streets around the main city square have been sealed off for much of the day.
Identity papers are being checked and rechecked by border police as the nation prepares itself for a major event to remember the man who brought at least the beginnings of peace to the region.
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Israelis gather in Tel Aviv to commemorate death of Rabin
Israelis lit candles at the Yitzhak Rabin memorial in Tel Aviv on Monday to commemorate the 20-year anniversary of the former prime minister's assassination by a rightwing Jewish extremist who hoped to derail the landmark 1993 Oslo Accords inked with the Palestinians.
Israel - Wreath laying ceremony
T/I: 11:10:27
Norway's Prime Minister, Thorbjoern Jagland, took part in a
wreath-laying ceremony at Yitzhak Rabin's memorial in Tel Aviv on Monday (20/10) and said the assassinated Israeli prime minister was a great man.
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TEL AVIV, ISRAEL 20th October 97
Norwegian caretaker Prime Minister Thorbjoern Jagland and former Norwegian envoy Tarje Larssen standing together,
wall painting of Yitzhak Rabin,
photographers,
Jagland and Larssen together, soldier;
Leah Rabin, Yitzhak's widow, greeting Jagland and Larssen,
cutaways, Shimon Peres with Norwegians and Leah Rabin, pullout
to show all four;
Jagland SOT in Norwegian;
Leah Rabin SOT in English about the loss of her husband;
Warren Christopher,
Shimon Peres lays a flower and a wreath.
1.54 mins
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Israel - Mourners' Tribute To Rabin
T/I: 11:23:51 GS 10:13:49
Israelis flocked to mourn murdered Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in
the country's two biggest cities on Saturday (11/11), a week after
he was assassinated. Tens of thousands of Israelis visited the
site of Rabin's assassination in Kings of Israel square in Tel
Aviv throughout Saturday, to light memorial candles and lay
flowers at makeshift shrines. In Jerusalem, parents
took their children to Rabin's graveside, leaving flowers on an
already high pile of wreaths, poems and personal messages.
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JERUSALEM, ISRAEL, 11/11
00.00 PAN across grave covered with flowers
00.15 People at graveside, pull out to candles
00.33 Man lighting candles
00.42 People sitting at graveside
00.47 PAN across grave
00.58 People with hundreds of candles
01.05 WS grave, zoom in to messages
01.12 Man SOT, PAN to others
01.17 Woman with head bowed
01.21 People and candles
01.25 WS grave and people
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL, 11/11
01.29 PULL-OUT from candles in square to WS line of candles
01.41 CU candle being held
01.45 Young girl lighting candles
01.49 Candle being placed among scores of others, tilt up to faces
and PULL-OUT to WS
02.04 Woman in tears, PAN to another woman
02.14 WS square, tilt down to candles
02.26 WS corner of square
02.34 People milling about
02.47 ENDS
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Rabin Square Tel Aviv (Kikar Rabin)
Rabin Square is easily one of the most iconic locations in the country, as it tends to be the center of any protest or ceremony from social welfare to national memorial services. For more about this place go to:
The Israeli Museum at the Yitzhak Rabin Center. Tel-Aviv Israel
יצחק רבין - המוזיאון הישראלי במרכז רבין The Israeli Museum is the first and only in Israel to explore the development of the State of Israel as a young democracy.
Built in a downward spiral, the museum presents two parallel stories: the history of the State and Israeli society, and the biography of Yitzhak Rabin. The museum exhibits focus on historical turning points in the country's development, presenting the conflicts, social challenges and dilemmas the country faced at that time. Along the inner corridor and interwoven with the exhibits' narratives is the story of the life of Yitzhak Rabin, the connecting thread in the country's history.
The museum is incredibly rich with over 180 documentary films, 1,500 still photographs and hundreds of memorabilia. We recommend no less than an hour-and-a half to two hours for a tour.
The museum experience is guided by individual audio devices. These devices allow visitors to tour the museum at their own pace. The audio devices are offered in Hebrew, English and Arabic.
The museum will offer guided tours beginning Tuesday, March 23, 2010. Guided tours will be offered in Hebrew and in English. Guided tours are recommended for groups of students and soldiers as well as families and groups from abroad. Please inquire with the museum desk for more information.
ב-4 בנובמבר 1995, יב בחשוון תשנו, נרצח ראש ממשלת ישראל ושר הביטחון יצחק רבין בידי מתנקש יהודי, בכיכר מלכי ישראל בתל-אביב, בסיומה של עצרת תמיכה בדרכו שנשאה את הכותרת כן לשלום, לא לאלימות.
הרצח אירע בשיאו של מאבק פוליטי קשה על אופייה ועל עתידה של מדינת ישראל, מאבק שלווה בהסתה נגד ראש הממשלה ונגד התהליך המדיני אותו הוביל. רצח יצחק רבין היה רצח פוליטי -- ניסיון בוטה לקעקע את אבני היסוד של המשטר הדמוקרטי. מרכז יצחק רבין הוקם בשנת 1997 מכוח
חוק המרכז להנצחת זכרו של יצחק רבין, תשנז - 1997. פעילות המרכז מוקדשת להנצחת זכרו ופועלו של יצחק רבין ולבחינת הלקחים שעל החברה הישראלית להפיק מהרצח, מנסיבותיו ומהשלכותיו. המרכז משלב בין פעילות חינוכית-חברתית, הנצחה מוזיאונית ותיעוד ופועל בכל שדרות החברה הישראלית. המרכז פועל כדי לשמש אתר חי ותוסס שיטביע את חותמו על השיח הציבורי בארץ, יעגן את מקומו של יצחק רבין בזיכרון הלאומי ויהווה מוקד משיכה והזדהות לנוער היהודי בארץ ובעולם.
Rabin Square Tel Aviv
One of the most famous square in Israel. In this place, 18 years ago (November 1994) the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was murdered by Jewish assassin.
Israel - Peres And Rabin Address Peace Rally
T/I: 11:01:14
Tens of thousands of Israelis attended a huge rally in Tel Aviv
late Saturday (4/11) in a show of support for the peace process
and the government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Rabin,
speaking at the rally, told the demonstrators: Allow me to say
that I am very moved. I want to thank each and all of you against
violence and for peace. Banner's proclaiming dismantle all
settlements now, Rabin and Peres are the heroes of our
generation were hung all over the main square. Foreign Minister
Shimon Peres also attended the rally, telling the crowds of
demonstrators the government would not fear to go on with the
peace process.
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TEL AVIV, ISRAEL 4/11
crowds gathered holding banners
various shots of crowd
many banners raised
audio of singing and music played
vs of police
pan crowds
peres addressing crowds (hebrew) for the sake of the government
of peace, for the sake of the government that was not afraid to
make peace, and we will not fear to go on with the peace process
rabin addressing crowds (hebrew) allow me to say that i am very
moved. i want to thank each and all of you against violence and
for peace.
cutaway to two flags raised
1.54
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ISRAEL:HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS ATTEND MEMORIAL RALLY FOR RABIN
Hebrew/Nat
More than 200-thousand people attended a memorial rally for Israel's assassinated Prime Minister in Tel Aviv's newly named Yitzhak Rabin Square.
Rabin's wife, Leah, and acting Prime Minister, Shimon Peres were at the rally, despite security concerns.
It was a defiant replay of the fateful peace rally eight days ago.
More than 200-thousand Israelis streamed into Tel Aviv's newly-named Yitzhak Rabin Square to reassert their desire for peace.
And to mourn the loss of their Prime Minister -- killed by an assassin's bullet as he left the peace rally in this square last weekend.
The killing -- the first assassination of a political leader in Israel -- has shaken Israel to the core.
The loss of innocence has turned Israel into one of the world's most security conscious nations.
Acting Prime Minister Shimon Peres was warned not to attend the memorial rally as his security could not be guaranteed. However, he ignored the warning and arrived with a phalanx of bodyguards.
Rabin's widow -- whose dignified presence has dominated the official week of mourning -- also attended the rally.
As the rally started, the night sky was lit up by a flame of peace.
Leah Rabin told her husband that the country had been overwhelmed by his loss.
SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew)
But you couldn't imagine how strong it was. Some of them, they keep coming and coming and coming. The whole country is in mourning all week long. The whole country stopped what it was doing and now it's crying. They come to your grave all the time, they cover you with flowers. They light candles and they leave letters for you.
SUPER CAPTION: Leah Rabin, wife of Yitzhak Rabin
Since Rabin's death, security in Tel Aviv and Israel's other big cities has been tighter than ever.
Police units -- many of them drafted in from other cities -- surrounded the crowd and sealed off all streets around the main city square.
They made one arrest.
This man was stopped for carrying a suspicious looking bag.
The rally ended with the Song for Peace, the song that Rabin sung just before he was shot.
It was a bitterly poignant moment for all those who had been there just eight days before singing the same words with their Prime Minister.
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Israel - Memorial Yitzak Rabin
T/I 10:01:00
Israelis flocked to mourn murdered Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in
the country's two biggest cities on Saturday (11/11), a week after
he was assassinated. Tens of thousands of Israelis visited the site of Rabin's assassination in Kings of Israel square in Tel Aviv to light memorial candles and lay flowers at makeshift shrines. In Jerusalem, parents took their children to Rabin's graveside, leaving flowers on an already high pile of wreaths, poems and personal messages.
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JERUSALEM, ISRAEL, 11/11
PAN across grave covered with flowers
People at graveside, pull out to candles
Man lighting candles
People sitting at graveside
PAN across grave
People with hundreds of candles
WS grave, zoom in to messages
Man SOT, PAN to others
Woman with head bowed
People and candles
WS grave and people
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL, 11/11
PULL-OUT from candles in square to WS line of candles
CU candle being held
Young girl lighting candles
Candle being placed among scores of others, tilt up to faces
and PULL-OUT to WS
Woman in tears, PAN to another woman
WS square, tilt down to candles
WS corner of square
People milling about
2.47
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Israel - Tribute to Yitzhak Rabin
T/I: 11:07:25
Members of the Board of Governors of the new Shimon Peres Center
for Peace on Monday (20/10) laid a wreath at the memorial to
assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in central Tel Aviv.
The ceremony participants included Peres, who was Rabin's foreign minister, and Rabin's widow, Leah.
More than 100 dignitaries and diplomats from around the globe were gathered in Tel Aviv to help launch the Center for Peace.
SHOWS:
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - 20/10
CU Rabin mural in Tel Aviv, near the place where Rabin was assassinated;
MS Leah Rabin and Norweigan Prime Minister;
CU Israeli soldier;
VS Peres and Leah Rabin;
MS Peres and Mrs. Rabin greet former Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Khalil;
WS square;
MS Peres and Rabin meet President of the Palestinian Legislative council Abu Allah;
MS former US Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Peres and Leah Rabin;
MS dignitaries;
SOT Leah Rabin, widow of former Prime Minister, (in English), Rarely have three bullets changed the course of history, standing here we know it happened, two years ago here on this spot.;
MS crowd;
SOT Warren Christopher, former US Secretary of State, (in English), I think what we all owe to ourselves and his memory is not a mortal wound to the peace process but a mortal wound to himself, what we all have to achieve is peace in the Middle east on his name.;
WS Peres, former Israeli Prime Minister at podium (in English): we can kill a human but you cannot kill a spirit;
SOT Thorbjoern Jagland, Norwegian Prime Minister, (in English), We have very strong feeling for what happened here. He was a great man who died here. Norway has tried very, very hard in this peace process. And, of course, Norway has lost a very, very friend. ;
Christopher and Peres at memorial,
Peres places flower at memorial;
WS people placing flowers at memorial;
CU flowers;
VS dignitaries placing flowers at memorial;
2.57
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ISRAEL: MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR YITZHAK RABIN
English/Nat
Army generals, Cabinet ministers and prominent figures joined the family of Israel's assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at a memorial service, one week after his killing.
Conspicuously absent from Mount Herzel cemetery in Jerusalem were the country's opposition politicians, whom Mrs. Rabin has blamed for encouraging the climate of rancor in which her husband was killed.
Yitzhak Rabin's son Yuval recited the Kaddish, the traditional Jewish prayer of mourning at Mount Herzel cemetery as his mother Leah, her eyes filled with tears, shook her head in grief.
Several hundred mourners, including acting Prime Minister Shimon Peres, Cabinet ministers and close aides, also attended.
Rabin was buried last Monday with full military honors before hundreds of world leaders. Thousands of Israelis have flocked to the grave each day since, turning it into a mountain of flowers.
His grandchildren, Yonatan and Noa, leaned on each other throughout the ceremony, wiping back tears.
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis are expected at a rally later in the Tel Aviv square where the Prime Minister was gunned down after a peace rally November 4 by a Jewish extremist.
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Israel - Memorial to assassinated PM Yitzhak Rabin
T/I 10:59:51
A memorial to assassinated Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was unveiled on Friday (01/11) at the spot where he was fatally shot in Tel Aviv almost one year ago.
The late prime minister's widow, Mrs. Leah Rabin, unveiled the simple black stone monument as a crowd of onlookers sang peace songs.
SHOWS:
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL. 1/11
wall poster of Rabin,
crowd of onlookers,
soldier on roof,
security.
families of Rabin and Shimon Peres arriving,
Leah Rabin sitting next to Peres,
man with glasses (Doron Rubin - Rabin's body guard on the night of the
assasination who was wounded),
SOT Shimon Peres (Hebrew) saying I am looking at those steps and I feel
like Rabin is still walking down, sometimes walking up, these steps to the love of the people.
Leah Rabin on stage.
SOT Leah Rabin saying this is the site where we last saw Yitzhak.. people singing Israeli hymn,
memorial unveiled,
Leah beside memorial,
Peres at memorial,
Leah being embraced;
Runs 3.04
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ISRAEL: RABIN ASSASSINATION: LAST SPEECH AT RALLY
Hebrew/Nat
The last speech made by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was a call to pro-peace activists for continued progress in reaching a political settlement in the Middle East.
Within an hour the Prime Minister was dead, gunned down by three bullets as he left the rally.
Rabin was about to get into his car to leave when the gunman fired the bullets from a close distance, hitting Rabin in the back and stomach.
A suspect, a right-wing law student, was in custody.
Rabin was taken to Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital where he died about an hour later on the operating table.
Tel Aviv's main square was packed with tens of thousands of people who turned out to show their support for the Israeli government's peace policies.
Their banners called on the government to dismantle all settlements now and named Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres the heroes of their generation.
SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew)
For a government of peace. For a government that won't be frightened of making peace and will never be frightened of continuing to make peace.
SUPER CAPTION: Shimon Peres, Israeli Foreign Minister
SOUNDBITE: (Hebrew)
Good evening, good week. Let me say that I'm getting excited as well. I would like to thank each and every one of you that stood here against violence and for peace. This government that I have the privilege of leading....
SUPER CAPTION: Yikzat Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister
The rally was organised by a pro-peace public committee headed by former Tel Aviv mayor Shlomo Lahat.
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Memorial Day in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv