Rabin's childhood gave little indication of his later deep involvement in military life. Unlike the Israeli boy of today, who might be inclined to emulate such military leaders as Moshe Dayan or Rabin himself.
Twenty years after that grave night of November 4, 1995, when Israel's prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was felled by an Israeli assassin's bullets, Robert Slater goes back to once again explore the man, politician and leader – a leader whose personal history paralleled that of his country, a onetime warrior that became a peacemaker. As the life of Yitzhak Rabin unfolds, the story of Israel is told: Rabin was the first native-born prime minister, the first to be born in the twentieth century...