Leah Rabin
Leah Rabin ( Hebrew לאה רבין; born Schloßberg ; born April 8, 1928 in Königsberg, East Prussia ; died November 12, 2000 in Petach Tikwa , Israel ) was an Israeli politician and the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, who was assassinated in 1995 .
Life
Early years
Her father, Fima Schloßberg, owned a textile goods store in Königsberg. Both her father and mother Augusta (Gusta) were born in Russia and emigrated to Germany with their parents as children, her father's parents to Königsberg and her mother's to Danzig . Leah Rabin wrote that her father identified with Zionism very early on :
“Papa had been a committed Zionist since he was five; At that time he joined one of the Herzl groups, which suddenly shot up like mushrooms to carry the torch that had been lit by Theodor Herzl , the Austrian journalist who had designed the vision of a Jewish state. "
Emigration to Palestine
In 1933 (at the age of five) she emigrated to Palestine with her family . On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was sworn in as German Chancellor , one day later her father went to Trieste and from there by ship to Palestine to arrange everything necessary for the family to move. That same night the mother drove with her two daughters Aviva and Leah to live with relatives in Riga , where they stayed until the father picked them up from there. In the meantime he had leased the Hotel Palatine in Tel Aviv , which also became the family's first residence in Palestine. They arrived at the port of Jaffa on June 5, 1933 . After the beginning of the Arab uprising in 1936, when Jaffa was on fire, Fima Schloßberg withdrew from the hotel business and took part in a company called Ha'avara. This company helped German Jews transfer at least part of their assets to Palestine under the Ha'avara Agreement .
At the age of six, Leah entered the private Balfour School. Following the example of her older sister Aviva, she joined HaSchomer HaTzair , a Zionist, socialist-oriented youth organization, in eighth grade . Later, at the request of her parents, she attended the Tichon Hadash secondary school for four years, whose German principal Tony Halle was committed to promoting tolerance and freedom of speech, and which was also a priority at her school. Most of the children in the Tikhon Hadash came from working-class families. Leah Rabin writes that her personality was lastingly shaped by attending school. Later, the two children Dalia (born March 1950) and Yuwal as well as the grandson Michael also attended the Tichon Hadasch high school, which was renamed Yitzak Rabin High School after the murder of Leah Rabi's husband.
In September 1940, Mussolini's air force attacked Tel Aviv; she and a friend almost fell victim to a bomb attack; more than a hundred people were killed in the attack and countless others were wounded. With hundreds of other children from Tel Aviv, she was then evacuated to Jerusalem , which was considered safe from Italian air raids because of its important Christian buildings. In Jerusalem she attended a religious school where her "eyes were literally opened"; at home she had learned little about the Jewish religion.
Marriage to Yitzhak Rabin
She met her husband Jitzchak Rabin in the summer of 1943 in an ice cream parlor on Allenby Street in Tel Aviv when she was in the tenth grade. They married in 1948.
“I believed I was facing a reincarnation of the biblical King David. However, his hair was auburn and his eyes were gray-green and incredibly bright. But what impressed me most was that he showed the typical behavior of a Palmach fighter: he suddenly disappeared for weeks and then reappeared just as suddenly. "
After graduating from high school in 1945 Leah also joined the Palmach (“to the great concern” of her parents).
Leah Rabin strongly supported her husband's efforts for peace in the Israel-Palestine conflict and continued working on common goals after his murder.
"With the determination to tear down the walls and the persistent will to bring the project of peace to a successful conclusion, a whole new form of coexistence in the Middle East can be created."
widow
Leah Rabin wrote a book with memories of her husband: I continue on his way .
Little is known that she wrote another book: Longing lives in my heart. Women in the Middle East , Droemer Knaur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-426-77403-8 .
Just a few years after his death, Leah Rabin developed cancer and died at the age of 72. Her family, especially the granddaughter Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof , continues to represent the grandparents' peace goals.
Quotes
"It was a wonderful childhood in" sandy "little Tel Aviv."
“Papa was a powerful influence on me. I loved him and he loved me with great tenderness. I inherited my frankness from him. He was a sincere and open - sometimes strict - man. My mother Gusta - short for Augusta - was more indulgent and warm. I also felt a deep affection for her; I felt completely secure and accepted in the love that both parents showed me. "
“Just as I was struck by the worst personal tragedy imaginable, so too had our country plunged into a historically unprecedented catastrophe. From the depths of my memory a strange picture appeared involuntarily, which forced a historical parallel on me in the midst of the shock state in which I found myself ... "
“Where, oh where are there still people like him?
As difficult as the challenge may be, our greatest duty is to find these people and prepare the way for them; to stand by the women and men who carry Yitzchak's vision and fill his legacy with life. And we ourselves have to muster up the courage for the peace of the brave. "
Awards
Web links
- Literature by and about Leah Rabin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lea Rabin (1928-2000) on (women's news) Lea Rabin (1928-2000) ( Memento from January 22, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.tichon-hadash.tlv.k12.il/emall/shopDepartment.asp?sc=1733&id=53999&fid=13451 ( Memento from October 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Accessed February 25, 2015.
- ^ Ralf Balke: Israel. CH Beck, 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-55836-8 , p. 52. Restricted preview in the Google book search
- ↑ Rabin, Leah: I continue on his way - memories of Jitzchak Rabin , Droemer Knaur , Munich 1997, ISBN 3-426-26975-9 .
- ↑ Jerusalem Post | Breaking News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. May 12, 2008, accessed January 18, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rabin, Leah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli politician and wife of Yitzchak Rabin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koenigsberg , East Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 2000 |
| Place of death | Petach Tikwa , Israel |