Knesset holds contentious memorial session on anniversary of Rabin assassination

[Israeli]

Netanyahu explains absence from state memorial ceremony, says some use slain PM's memory to bash parts of populace, himself; Lapid: Rabin assassin’s ‘ideological heirs’ are serving in Knesset

The Israeli parliament held a special session Monday evening in memory of the late prime minister and defense minister Yitzhak Rabin on the 26th anniversary of his assassination.

Rabin was assassinated by far-right extremist Yigal Amir on November 5, 1995. The anniversary of his killing is marked according to the Hebrew calendar.

One by one, Israeli lawmakers and dignitaries took the stand and made their remarks which were rife with political attacks as much as they were dedicated to statesmanship and honoring the memory of the slain prime minister.
The Knesset session came after the official state ceremony in memory of Rabin was held near his gravesite at the Mount Herzl National Cemetery in Jerusalem, with Israeli leaders, as well as many foreign dignitaries and ambassadors in attendance.

One notable absentee, however, was the leader of Israel’s opposition Benjamin Netanyahu who attended the ceremony in recent years while serving as prime minister.

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