Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Innovative Research in Education
Year: 2024
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Marking the Memorial Day of the late Prime Minister Rabin by the Israeli Ministry of Education
Prof. Sara Zamir
ABSTRACT:
On the evening of 4 November 1995, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a right-wing Jewish extremist who opposed the signing of the Oslo Accord that marked the beginning of peace negotiation between Israel and the Palestinian. Several years after the assassination of Rabin, the Israeli Ministry of Education began to distribute a yearly poster on the Rabin’s National Remembrance Day to all state schools in Israel, asking educators to contemplate on his memory and his legacy. The aim of this research was to study the way the memory of Rabin is cherished and whether the trauma of the assassination still exists as a lesson to be learnt. The results, elicited by the method of semiology, show that the focus is slowly shifting from the wrongdoing of political assassination in democracy to neutral messages focusing on consensus as brotherhood.
keywords: Rabin, assassination, Memorial days, Israeli Ministry of Education