Tikvah
Editors’ Pick

December 29, 2015

Misreading the Legacy of Yitzḥak Rabin

Thanks to him, left and right have switched sides.

Dan Ephron’s Killing a King may provide a readable and accurate account of the events leading up to Yitzḥak Rabin’s assassination, writes Seth Mandel, but these merits are outweighed by the author’s “naked ideological agenda.” This causes him to miss the profound realignment in Israeli politics that is Rabin’s real legacy:

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