The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by a right-wing law student, Yigal Amir. … Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, who also attended the rally, took Rabin’s place as Prime Minister and head of the Labor Party, but lost the subsequent elections in May 1996.

A declaration adopted at a special session of the Yishuv People’s Council in Tel Aviv, on 14 May 1948, establishing Israel as a Jewish state in the Land of Israel.