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Rabin Square

Rabin Square (previously Kings of Israel Square ), is a large public city square

Town square

Public square and city square redirect here. For Public Square, Cleveland, see Public Square and for City Square in Leeds see Leeds City Square....
in central Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
. It was re-named after Israeli Prime Minister

Prime Minister of Israel

The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and is the most powerful political officer in Israel . He or she wields executive power in the country, and has an official residence in Jerusalem....
Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin

was an Israeli politician and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–1977 and 1992 until his assassination in 1995....
, following his assassination there in 1995

Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin took place on November 4, 1995, at 21:30, at the end of a Demonstration in support of the Oslo Accords at the Rabin Square in Tel Aviv....
.

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Rabin Square (previously Kings of Israel Square ), is a large public city square

Town square

Public square and city square redirect here. For Public Square, Cleveland, see Public Square and for City Square in Leeds see Leeds City Square....
in central Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Prime Minister of Israel

Yitzhak Rabin

Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin took place on November 4, 1995, at 21:30, at the end of a Demonstration in support of the Oslo Accords at the Rabin Square in Tel Aviv....
. Surrounded by the city hall building to the north (designed by the architect Menachem Cohen), Ibn Gabirol Street

Ibn Gabirol Street

Ibn Gabirol Street is a major street in Tel Aviv, Israel, named after the medieval Hebrew poet and philosopher Solomon ibn Gabirol. It carries traffic north and south, and is a busy residential and shopping street....
to the east, Frischmann Street to the south and Hen

Hayyim Nahman Bialik

Hayim Nahman Bialik , also Chaim or Haim, was a Jewish poet who wrote in Hebrew language. Bialik was one of the pioneers of modern Hebrew poets and came to be recognized as Israel's national poet....
Boulevard to the west, it was designed alongside to City Hall in 1964 by the architects Yaski and Alexandroni.

It is the largest open public square in Tel Aviv, and is known for holding many political rallies

Demonstration (people)

A demonstration is a form of nonviolent action by groups of people in favor of a political or other cause, normally consisting of walking in a march and a meeting to hear speakers....
, parade

Parade

A parade is a procession of people, usually organized along a street, often in costume, and often accompanied by marching bands, float or sometimes large balloons....
s, and other public events. Until the early 1990s, it also served as a public exhibition ground for IDF

Israel Defense Forces

The Israel Defense Forces , commonly known in Israel by the Hebrew Acronym and initialism Tzahal , are Israel's military forces, comprising the GOC Army Headquarters, Israeli Air Force and Israeli navy....
field units (mostly tank

Tank

A tank is a Continuous track, armoured fighting vehicle designed for front-line combat which combines operational mobility and Military tactics Offensive and defence capabilities....
s and heavy artillery) on Yom Ha'atzmaut

Yom Ha'atzmaut

Yom Ha'atzmaut is the national Independence Day of Israel, commemorating its declaration of independence in 1948.Celebrated annually on 5th of the Hebrew calendar of Iyar, it centers around the declaration of the state of Israel by David Ben Gurion in Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948 , and the end of the British Mandate of Palestine....
, Israeli independence day

Independence Day

An Independence Day is an annual celebration commemorating the anniversary of a nation's assumption of independent statehood, usually after ceasing to be a colony or part of another state, more rarely after the end of a military occupation....
.

On September 25, 1982 hundreds of thousands of Israelis (about 10 percent of the country's population at the time) demonstrated in the square, incensed over the killing of Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatila massacre

Sabra and Shatila massacre

The Sabra and Shatila massacre was carried out between September 16 and 18, 1982 by the Lebanese Forces Christian militia group after the Israeli Defense Forces allowed Lebanese Kataeb Party militiamen to enter two Palestinian refugee camps, and the militia massacred civilians inside....
. At the conclusion of a rally on November 4, 1995, the Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated. In the days following the event, thousands of Israelis gathered on the site to commemorate Rabin. The young people who came to mourn Rabin were dubbed the "Candles Youth" (???? ?????, noar hanerot) after the many yahrzeit

Bereavement in Judaism

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candle

Candle

A candle is a source of light, and sometimes a source of heat, consisting of a solid block of fuel and an embedded candle wick.Today, most candles are made from paraffin....
s they lit. Some of the graffiti

Graffiti

Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. Graffiti is sometimes regarded as a form of art and other times regarded as unsightly damage or unwanted....
they drew upon the nearby walls has been preserved.

Today a memorial can be found on the site where Rabin was assassinated (at the northeast corner of the square, below City Hall). Part of the memorial is a small, open legacy wall for the man. Near the north end of the square is a memorial sculpture designed by the Israeli artist Yigal Tumarkin

Yigal Tumarkin

Yigal Tumarkin is an Israeli painter and sculptor, and an Israel Prize laureate . He is also known as Igael Tumarkin.Tumarkin emigrated to British Mandate of Palestine from Germany at the age of two, where he later served in the Israeli Sea Corps....
commemorating the Holocaust

The Holocaust

The Holocaust , also known as , Churben is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, as part of a program of deliberate extermination planned and executed by Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler....
.

In recent years much criticism has been heard about the Square's appearance, and especially about the City Hall building. What in the 1960s was one of the city's biggest and most impressive architectural designs is today sometimes considered one of the city's worst eyesore

Eyesore

An eyesore is what an individual perceives as an unpleasant sight. Common examples include dilapidation buildings, graffiti, litter, pollution and excessive commercial signage such as billboards....
s. Plans have been made (most of which have even been approved) to renovate the whole square and City Hall. The plans include giving City Hall a more modern look to fit in with the many new skyscraper

Skyscraper

A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building. There is no official definition nor height above which a building may clearly be classified as a skyscraper....
s in Tel Aviv, and building a large underground parking complex underneath the square for the neighborhood, which suffers from a dire lack of parking

Parking

Parking is the act of stopping a vehicle and leaving it unoccupied for more than a brief time. Parking on one or both sides of a road is commonly permitted, though often with restrictions....
space. Opposition to the renovation plans mostly centers around arguments that the design of the square and City Hall is part of Tel Aviv's history and should be preserved. This opposition has delayed construction.