…and we were so busy with our little election problems that we almost didn’t notice.
Mrs. Rabin, I have always wanted to see your country. I know people that have been there, and they say it’s beautiful. The strife that has torn it in two, though, has kept me here instead.
I had hoped that your husband might be the one to bring peace to your troubled nation, but since his tragic and senseless death, things only seem to have gotten worse. You were robbed of a husband, your country was robbed of one of it’s finest leaders, and the world was robbed of one of it’s finest people.
I wept when your husband died. I wept when I heard that you were gone, too. But if there is an afterlife, I am sure the two of you are together in it, living in the peace that you so valiantly sought in your time here on earth.
Goodbye, Mrs. Rabin. You will be missed.
My thoughts go out to the Rabins’ daughter. I believe she is only in her late teens. I hope she will be to carry on–must be rough to lose both parents within a couple years span.
Sir
Guanolad: On November 4, 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated at an outdoor rally. Leah Rabin was his wife.
Sir Rhosis: Mrs. Rabin was 72 years old. According to the Associated Press:
*Mrs. Rabin leaves two children, Dalia Rabin-Pelossof, a lawyer and member of Parliament who went into politics after the assassination; and Yuval Rabin, who, after a career in the army and business, founded a peace movement among young Israelis.
She also leaves three grandchildren, including Noa Ben-Artzi, whose simple but profound eulogy of her grandfather moved world leaders to tears at his funeral.*
Of course, this doesn’t rule out the possibility that her husband may have a teenage child from another woman, but I have found no mention of this.
Shadowfox,
You are right, I wasn’t thinking. I was of course misremembering. It was their granddaughter, not their daughter, who moved me so profoundly with her eulogy for Mr. Rabin.
Thanks for setting me straight.
Sir