Rabin is assassinated in Tel Aviv on…

Rabin is assassinated in Tel Aviv on November 4, 1995, shortly after Oslo II is passed in the Knesset, during the first rally of the public campaign he had decided on to rally his supporters, apparently by a Jewish religious fanatic (alternative theories, implicating a faction within Shabak, abound)

The confessed assassin, twenty-five-year-old Yigal Amir, had shot the prime minister as he walked to his car after a peace rally in Tel Aviv.

Amir says his motive was to destroy a peace process that violates religious law.

Extremist rabbis had reportedly ruled that the prime minister deserved to die because the Israeli-Palestinian accords entailed giving up parts of the sacred land of Israel and allegedly put Jewish lives at risk.

Israelis are horrified, and after a funeral attended by many international leaders, including Mubarak, King Hussein, and representatives from four other Arab states, a round of soul-searching and recriminations begins.

Within days, a state commission of inquiry is set up to look into the security lapse that enabled the killer to get within centimeters of his target.

Several leading members of the Shin Bet resign.

Popular Israeli support for the peace process surges, and with the Likud on the defensive, Shimon Peres, Rabin's successor as prime minister, quickly expresses his determination to continue the planned Israeli deployments and proceeds with Oslo II.

Ehud Barak assumes Peres's former position as minister of foreign affairs.