Sunday, September 20, 2009

Yitzhak Rabin Telecard (1995)


Following Yitzhak Rabin's assassination on 4 November 1995, the term "לא לאלימות" or "No To Violence," gained a lot of popularity.  Not simply as a term, but as a meaningful realization that the right-wing political rhetoric may have gone too far.  Before Rabin died, some rabbis associated with the right (I emphasize some, NOT all) placed curses on Rabin, images of Rabin in Nazi uniform circulated widely, and a general extreme hatred of him and his policies began to spread.  I picked up this telecard (used to place calls at public phones) in '95.

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