Marking the twentieth anniversary of the assassination of Yitzḥak Rabin, Shmuel Rosner argues that the Israeli prime minister’s legacy is often deeply misunderstood:

On December 20, a Palestinian waited in a wooded area near a Jewish village in northern Israel in the hope of encountering a victim. Soon enough he spotted Esther Horgan walking home from an evening jog and killed her by beating her with a rock. He later told the police that he did the deed to avenge the death of Kamal Abu Wa’er, a terrorist in Israeli custody. Itamar Marcus explains: