Israel’s top officials gathered on the eighth anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin’s funeral to remember the slain prime minister. Standing near Rabin’s grave on Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called on Israelis to “heal from the chasm” that has divided the nation since Rabin was assassinated after a peace rally in Tel Aviv on Nov. 4, 1995.
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