Overview
- More than 100,000 people gathered at Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square to mark 30 years since the killing, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stayed away.
- Speakers and attendees linked Rabin’s dialogue-first approach to current debates, faulting Netanyahu for deepening divisions and for failures around the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack.
- Former deputy foreign minister Jossi Beilin reaffirmed a two-state vision and said Israel needs leaders who place national interests above personal politics.
- Rabin’s ex-press secretary Uri Dromi contended the current government seeks control over the judiciary and independent media, a departure from Rabin’s respect for legal institutions.
- Dromi said Israel’s initial response in Gaza was justified but became disproportionate, urged stopping the war earlier, and rejected claims that Israel committed genocide.