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HD Alumni Remember Rabin's Murder,
25 Years Later
On November 1, a group of 70 Habonim Dror At the event, participants had the
Alumni gathered on Zoom for an event opportunity to discuss with one another
commemorating the assassination of Prime how they felt that the divisive moment of
Minister Yizchak Rabin. At the event, members Rabin's assassination compares with the
of Workshop 45 who were in Israel at the time politics of today. Participants reflected
of the murder spoke about their experience and on the imminent U.S. election, and the
how it impacted the course of their lives. extreme polarization that has erupted in
the lead up.
"Is the homeland of Jews all over the world
becoming a homeland for just those that agree Speakers and participants agreed that
with it? Never before has Israel stood divided Workshop and the movement generally
along such extreme lines, and sometimes it have an important role to play, both in
seems that some of the reactions to the educating toward democracy in divisive
assassination, once the initial shock wore off, times, and in exposing youth to history
have been only more divisive." That's what one in the making.
Workshopper, Robin Merkel, wrote in 1995.
