Lenin Peace Prize

He entered the Knesset (parliament) as aLabor member in January 1974; by May he had succeeded Golda Meir as prime minister and party leader. In April 1977, after a series of scandals, he was forced to surrender his party leadership to Shimon Peres. As defense minister from 1984 to 1990, Rabin was responsible for carrying out Israel's hard-line response to the Palestinian uprisings known as the intifada. In February 1992 he replaced Peres as Labor party leader, and after elections in June, Rabin again became prime minister. In 1993, after secret negotiations, Rabin agreed to the signing of an historic peace accord with longtime enemy Yasir Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The agreement paved the way for limited Palestinian self-rule in Israeli-occupied territories. Rabin shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with Arafat and Peres. In 1994 Rabin signed a peace agreement with King Hussein of Jordan that ended the state of war between the two countries. Статья написана еще при жизни Ицхака Рабина и в ней нет даты смерти ...»