Some 100,000 people were reported to have shown up last night at a memorial rally for Yitzchak Rabin in Tel Aviv, as the 8th anniversary of his assassination approaches. The main speaker, Shimon Peres, who initiated the Oslo process while serving as Foreign Minister under Rabin and beforehand, delivered a very political speech. "Yitzchak was right, and our way was right," he said. "Our path is firm and clear, and we will not weaken. We will continue... Those who incited against you and condemned you have now adopted your way, but with embarrassing lateness and hesitation. The right-wing has finally understood that it's better to have two states for two peoples..." Peres said that Abu Ala is a "man of actions, and not just talk, with whom we can attain dialogue."

Other speakers included Rabin's daughter Dalia Rabin-Pilosoph, former Mossad chief Ephraim HaLevy, and one of Rabin's drivers, Yechezkel Sharabi. Agriculture Minister Yisrael Katz of the Likud said this morning that the demonstration was "much too political, [in which] the main speaker incited against the right-wing and the NRP and the National Union... It was not appropriate for a memorial ceremony for a slain Prime Minister."



Likud MK Gilad Erdan asked this morning, "Why did Peres refer to the 'murderers' of Yitzchak Rabin? As far as I know, there was only one murderer..."



The Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipality fired a worker this morning after he was caught spitting on the Rabin memorial. The city will also open criminal proceedings against the 18-year-old offender.