On the night of Saturday November 4, 1995, Yitzhak Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel and one of the greatest leaders ever, traveled to the Kings square in Tel Aviv to give a speech at a peace rally. An incredible number of people came to hear him expressing his thoughts about the peace. The name of the rally was: "Yes to peace and no to violence".

After he sang the peace song on stage with other officials and artists and finished the rally, he walked to his car.

Then a young Jewish student called Yigal Amir shot him in the back three shots. Rabin was critically injured. He died a short time after Magen David Adom (Israeli Red Cross) took him to Ichilov Hospital in Tel-Aviv.

At our school we are not forgetting this incident and we are having a ritual ceremony to remember and never forget this wonderful man and everything he stood for so we the future generation could have a better life.

A big part of my class took a part in the memorial ceremony, they told about their feelings and thoughts on the stage. The others told about the person himself and their feelings and thoughts about his life.

The songs that the children in the ceremony sang were all sad songs about peace and hope. The dancing group danced a song that encourages hope for everyone who saw the beautiful and touching ceremony.

We at Ein Ganim 6th grade remember and do not forget- we hope you will feel the same after reading about Yitzhak Rabin in our website.