Leah Rabin, widow of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, is suffering from lung cancer and is undergoing tests in the United States. The Washington Post reported that the illness became known when Rabin failed to appear at a Washington ceremony in her honor.
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