Henry Kissinger joined Washington officials to remember Yitzhak Rabin. The Israeli Embassy in Washington hosted a memorial Tuesday for the late Israeli prime minister, who was assassinated on Nov. 4, 1995. “He was, to me, a symbol of the complexities and the commitments involved in the fate of Israel,” said Kissinger, a former U.S. secretary of state who worked closely with Rabin when he was Israel’s ambassador to the United States and then prime minister in the 1970s.
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