(1922–1995) A Jewish Israeli political and military figure. Prior to Israel’s establishment in 1948, he served in the Palmach unit of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah. Following many years in the military, Rabin was appointed Chief of Staff of the Israeli army in 1964 and oversaw Israeli military action during the War of 1967. A member of the Labor party, he served as Israeli Ambassador to the United States from 1968-1973. He then went on to become the first Israeli Prime Minster born in Israel, serving from 1974-1977 and a second term from 1992-1995. Rabin was also Defense Minister from 1984–1990 during the First Intifada, which he sought to crush militarily. His strategy during that period was characterized by the order for “force, might and beatings.” In 1993, in his capacity as Prime Minister, Rabin took steps toward accepting a future Palestinian state by launching the Oslo Process with the Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat. The two shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize along with Shimon Peres. He later helped broker Israel’s 1994 peace treaty with Jordan (see Israeli-Jordanian Peace Treaty). Rabin was assassinated on November 4, 1995 by a Jewish extremist. See Gresh, Alain and Dominique Vidal. The New A-Z of the Middle East. New York: IB Tauris, 2004; and “Yitzhak Rabin.” Encyclopedia Britannica Online. 3 October 2011. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9062358/Yitzhak-Rabin.  http://www.justvision.org/glossary/rabin-yitzhak