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D
ignitaries from around
the world gathered for
the funeral of Leah
Rabin, buried this week
alongside her husband at Mount
Herzl Cemetery.
Rabin, the widow of assassinated
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and a
leading proponent of the Israeli-
Palestinian peace process, died Nov.
12 at age 72 from lung cancer.
U.S. first lady and senator-elect
Hillary Rodham Clinton eulogized
Leah Rabin at the Nov. 15 funeral.
"What mattered most of all to her
was that she was a soldier's wife, a
general's wife, a prime minister's wife,
who shared with her dear husband a
dream of a secure Israel at peace with
her neighbors,"
Clinton said.
"She carried on
that dream in the
last five years of her
life. But it was a
dream she and
Yitzhak had made
together, because
wherever he went,
she went.
"Their lives were
and are Israel's histo-
ry. Now their legacy
must be Israel's
future," Clinton said.
Earlier in the day, Leah Rabin
hundreds of people
joined Rabin family
and friends to pay their last respects at
a memorial service held in Tel Aviv's
Rabin Square. Mrs. Rabin's husband
was gunned down there in 1995.
President Bill Clinton, in Asia at
the time of the funeral, issued a state-
ment shortly after Mrs. Rabin died,
saying that with her passing, "the
Middle East has lost a friend of peace."
Said Clinton: "The work to which
she and Yitzhak dedicated their lives
must, and will, continue."
Mrs. Rabin confirmed earlier this
year that she had lung cancer and had
been hospitalized recently after corn-
plaining of chest pains.
Her survivors include children
Dalia. Rabin-Pelossof, a lawyer who
serves in the Knesset, and Yuval
Rabin, founder of a peace group after
his father's assassination who now
represents an Israeli software firm in
the U.S. Mrs. Rabin also had three
grandchildren.
A prominent and sometimes con-
troversial figure in Israeli society,
Rabin was born Leah Schlossberg in
1928 in Germany. The day after
Adolf Hider rose to power, her family
was able to immigrate to what was
then called Palestine.
She grew up in Tel Aviv and at 15
met Yitzhak Rabin, who was then 21.
She once described the encounter as
love at first sight. They married dur-
ing the 1948 War of Independence.
She staunchly supported Yitzhak
throughout his army career, his post-
ing as U.S. ambassador to
Washington and while he served as
prime minister and defense minister.
In 1977, he stepped down as
prime minister after it was discov-
ered that Leah Rabin had
maintained a U.S. bank
account while he was
posted in Washington —
a violation of Israeli cur-
rency regulations at the
time. She was later fined
for the offense, prompt-
ing critics to accuse her
of sabotaging her hus-
band's political career.
Following her hus-
band's 1995 assassination,
she accused then opposi-
tion leader Binyamin
Netanyahu of cultivating
an atmosphere of incite-
ment that led to the slay-
ing. She refused to shake
Netanyahu's hand at her husband's
funeral, where she sat in silent dignity
as world leaders came to pay their
respects. When Netanyahu was elected
prime minister in 1996, she threatened
to pack her bags and leave the country.
In September, she told an Israeli
newspaper that "Yitzhak is surely
turning in his grave," accusing Prime
Minister Ehud Barak of making too
many concessions to the Palestinians.
Nava Barak, wife of the current
prime minister, addressed the dis-
agreement. She was attending this
week's United Jewish Communities'
General Assembly in Chicago.
"If there was a disagreement about
the way, that's not important. What is
important is that we all pursue the
path of peace." ❑