Yoram Peri is Professor of Communication and Political Sociology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

• Introduction: the writing was on the wall Yoram Peri; Part I. The Road to Rabin Square: 1. The assassination: causes, meaning, outcomes Yoram Peri; 2. One more political murder by Jews Nachman Ben-Yehuda; 3. Israel's radical right and the countdown to the Rabin assassination Ehud Sprinzak; 4. Self-destructive processes in Israeli politics Israel Orbach; Part II. The Public Reaction: 5. 'Let us search our path': religious Zionism after the assassination Aviezer Ravitzky; 6. An illusion of belonging: reactions of the Arab population to Rabin's assassination Majid Al-Haj; 7. The media and the Rabin myth: reconstruction of the Israeli collective identity Yoram Peri; Part III. The Grief and the Mourning: 8. The many voices of Israeli youth: multiple interpretations of Rabin's assassination Tamar Rapoport; 9. Rabin's burial ground: revisiting the Zionist myth Haim Hazan; 10. The cultural and social construction of mourning patterns Eliezer Witztum and Ruth Malkinson; 11. Rhetoric on the roads of Israel: the assassination and political bumper stickers Linda-Renee Bloch; 12. The past in our present: the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and John F. Kennedy Barbie Zelizer; Part IV. The Ongoing Crisis of Legitimacy: 13. The latitude of acceptance: Israelis' attitudes toward political protest before and after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin Tamar Hermann and Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar; 14. At the last moment Gadi Yatziv; 15. Rabin: between commemoration and denial Yoram Peri; Index.

"The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin provides the most comprehensive scholarly analysis of Rabin's assassination that is available to date. For those wishing to understand the causes of the assassination and the reactions to it, it is indispensable. It also provides a wealth of valuable insights for anyone interested in the social and cultural processes of national mourning, grief, and commemoration. Finally, the book offers an outstanding example of how contributions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives can explore a topic of common concern. One can only hope that more such interdisciplinary efforts will appear in future."—Dov Waxman, Bowdoin College

Yoram Peri is Professor of Communication and Political Sociology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

• Introduction: the writing was on the wall Yoram Peri; Part I. The Road to Rabin Square: 1. The assassination: causes, meaning, outcomes Yoram Peri; 2. One more political murder by Jews Nachman Ben-Yehuda; 3. Israel's radical right and the countdown to the Rabin assassination Ehud Sprinzak; 4. Self-destructive processes in Israeli politics Israel Orbach; Part II. The Public Reaction: 5. 'Let us search our path': religious Zionism after the assassination Aviezer Ravitzky; 6. An illusion of belonging: reactions of the Arab population to Rabin's assassination Majid Al-Haj; 7. The media and the Rabin myth: reconstruction of the Israeli collective identity Yoram Peri; Part III. The Grief and the Mourning: 8. The many voices of Israeli youth: multiple interpretations of Rabin's assassination Tamar Rapoport; 9. Rabin's burial ground: revisiting the Zionist myth Haim Hazan; 10. The cultural and social construction of mourning patterns Eliezer Witztum and Ruth Malkinson; 11. Rhetoric on the roads of Israel: the assassination and political bumper stickers Linda-Renee Bloch; 12. The past in our present: the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and John F. Kennedy Barbie Zelizer; Part IV. The Ongoing Crisis of Legitimacy: 13. The latitude of acceptance: Israelis' attitudes toward political protest before and after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin Tamar Hermann and Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar; 14. At the last moment Gadi Yatziv; 15. Rabin: between commemoration and denial Yoram Peri; Index.

"The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin provides the most comprehensive scholarly analysis of Rabin's assassination that is available to date. For those wishing to understand the causes of the assassination and the reactions to it, it is indispensable. It also provides a wealth of valuable insights for anyone interested in the social and cultural processes of national mourning, grief, and commemoration. Finally, the book offers an outstanding example of how contributions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives can explore a topic of common concern. One can only hope that more such interdisciplinary efforts will appear in future."—Dov Waxman, Bowdoin College

Yoram Peri is Professor of Communication and Political Sociology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

• Introduction: the writing was on the wall Yoram Peri; Part I. The Road to Rabin Square: 1. The assassination: causes, meaning, outcomes Yoram Peri; 2. One more political murder by Jews Nachman Ben-Yehuda; 3. Israel's radical right and the countdown to the Rabin assassination Ehud Sprinzak; 4. Self-destructive processes in Israeli politics Israel Orbach; Part II. The Public Reaction: 5. 'Let us search our path': religious Zionism after the assassination Aviezer Ravitzky; 6. An illusion of belonging: reactions of the Arab population to Rabin's assassination Majid Al-Haj; 7. The media and the Rabin myth: reconstruction of the Israeli collective identity Yoram Peri; Part III. The Grief and the Mourning: 8. The many voices of Israeli youth: multiple interpretations of Rabin's assassination Tamar Rapoport; 9. Rabin's burial ground: revisiting the Zionist myth Haim Hazan; 10. The cultural and social construction of mourning patterns Eliezer Witztum and Ruth Malkinson; 11. Rhetoric on the roads of Israel: the assassination and political bumper stickers Linda-Renee Bloch; 12. The past in our present: the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and John F. Kennedy Barbie Zelizer; Part IV. The Ongoing Crisis of Legitimacy: 13. The latitude of acceptance: Israelis' attitudes toward political protest before and after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin Tamar Hermann and Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar; 14. At the last moment Gadi Yatziv; 15. Rabin: between commemoration and denial Yoram Peri; Index.

"The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin provides the most comprehensive scholarly analysis of Rabin's assassination that is available to date. For those wishing to understand the causes of the assassination and the reactions to it, it is indispensable. It also provides a wealth of valuable insights for anyone interested in the social and cultural processes of national mourning, grief, and commemoration. Finally, the book offers an outstanding example of how contributions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives can explore a topic of common concern. One can only hope that more such interdisciplinary efforts will appear in future."—Dov Waxman, Bowdoin College