The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin / edited by Yoram Peri.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Writing Was on the Wall / Yoram Peri -- Pt. I. The Road to Rabin Square. 1. The Assassination: Causes, Meaning, Outcomes / Yoram Peri. 2. One More Political Murder by Jews / Nachman Ben-Yehuda. 3. Israel's Radical Right and the Countdown to the Rabin Assassination / Ehud Sprinzak. 4. Self-Destructive Processes in Israeli Politics / Israel Orbach -- Pt. II. The Public Reaction. 5. "Let Us Search Our Path": Religious Zionism After the Assassination / Aviezer Ravitzky. 6. An Illusion of Belonging: Reactions of the Arab Population to Rabin's Assassination / Majid Al-Haj. 7. The Media and the Rabin Myth: Reconstruction of the Israeli Collective Identity / Yoram Peri -- Pt. III. The Grief and the Mourning. 8. The Many Voices of Israeli Youth: Multiple Interpretations of Rabin's Assassination / Tamar Rapoport. 9. Rabin's Burial Ground: Revisiting the Zionist Myth / Haim Hazan.

10. The Cultural and Social Construction of Mourning Patterns / Eliezer Witztum and Ruth Malkinson. 11. Rhetoric on the Roads of Israel: The Assassination and Political Bumper Stickers / Linda-Renee Bloch. 12. The Past in Our Present: The Assassinations of Yitzhak Rabin and John F. Kennedy / Barbie Zelizer -- Pt. IV. The Ongoing Crisis of Legitimacy. 13. The Latitude of Acceptance: Israelis' Attitudes toward Political Protest before and after the Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin / Tamar Hermann and Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar. 14. At the Last Moment / Gadi Yatziv. 15. Rabin: Between Commemoration and Denial / Yoram Peri.

"This book deals with the social and political developments in Israel in the painful process of decolonization from the occupied territories, following the late 1980s Palestinian Intifada and its aftermath.

Fifteen distinguished contributors from a range of disciplinary viewpoints - historical, psychological, anthropological, political, and cultural - survey the various reactions to the assassination and analyze its ramifications and repercussions, creating a powerful mosaic of Israel with the assassination at its center.".

"The assassination showed how easy it is for religious fundamentalists to ignore democratic rules and how militant nationalists will resort to violence to prevent the surrender of parts of the Holy Land."--BOOK JACKET.