1995 Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

Twenty years ago, on November 4, 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for signing the Oslo peace agreement with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, was shot dead during a rally in Israel's Kings Square in Tel Aviv. The killer was a religious fanatic, student Yigal Amir, who said that with his shots he "protected the people of Israel from the Oslo agreements." He was sentenced to life imprisonment, which he is still serving.