Rabin, Yitzhak, 1922-95, Israeli general and political leader, first native-born prime minister of Israel (1974-77, 1992-95). An army officer, Rabin rose to chief of staff by 1964 and was credited with Israel's victory in the Six-Day War (1967).

Elected to parliament as a Labor party deputy, he served (Mar-May 1974) as labor minister before becoming prime minister. As defense minister (1984-90) in the Labor-Likud coalition government, he ordered a harsh crackdown on the Arab uprising in the West Bank in the late 1980s.

Rabin ousted Shimon Peres as Labor party leader in 1992 and led Labor to victory in the national elections, becoming prime minister and defense minister. In 1993 and 1995 he signed accords with the PLO that called for limited Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Arab areas of the West Bank, and he signed a treaty with Jordan in 1994.

With Peres and PLO leader Yasir Arafat, Rabin was awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize for peace for the 1993 accord.

Rabin was assassinated by a right-wing Jewish extremist in 1995.