Sinat Hinam News Today

From the blog of Tuvia Book at The Times of Israel

From the blog of Robert L. Kern at The Times of Israel

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I was at the Kikar (now called Rabin Square) with my family in November 1995, the last night of the national mourning shiva for Yitzhak Rabin z”l. We first saw it on TV and decided to be personally part of Israel’s equivalent of the Kennedy assassination and spontaneously drove to Tel Aviv, with our boys, parked and walked to the Kikar. At the end of Leah Rabin z”l’s speech, we felt a real messianic moment of unity and respect for each other, as Aviv Gefen sang and the rest of us in the...