The widow of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin unveiled plans for the establishment of Israel’s official memorial to her husband. At a briefing Monday in New York, Leah Rabin said the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies will function as an educational center, archive and museum “in the grand tradition of American presidential libraries.” Launching the U.S. fund-raising drive for the center, she said a main garden at the facility will be dedicated to the memory of Jordan’s King Hussein.
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