Archives & Library
The Rabin Center Archive constitutes part of the National State Archive, and is the repository of material pertaining to Yitzhak Rabin’s life and his fifty years of military and political activity, as well as a large amount of material pertaining to Rabin’s assassination. It is a “living” archive that will continue to accumulate future documents.The archive also includes personal material that belonged to Rabin, as well as other documents that testify to the atmosphere existing in the country prior to the assassination and the expressions of grief in Israel and from around the world after it.
The archive includes documents, photos, and newspaper excerpts, exclusive interviews with the personalities and comrades who supported the path taken by Yitzhak Rabin. These have been edited by the Rabin Center within the framework of an oral documentation project that is also based on video and voice clips, as well as a collection of relevant films.
Open to researchers, students and members of the public, the scope of archival material is vast. A complete listing of what is available may be viewed through the search engine of the Center’s archive which is situated on The Yitzhak Rabin website.
The Rabin Center Library
The Rabin Center library offers a general, comprehensive, and varied collection of literature on numerous subjects construed as analogous to the issues constituting Yitzhak Rabin’s life: society, security, economics, government and politics, foreign relations, and much more. In addition it contains collections pertaining to unique issues explored at the Rabin Center such as: historic memory, collective identity, political assassination, commemoration, and the peace process.This database offers bibliographies of the aforementioned topics, as well as a list of headlines to newspaper articles published on these subjects over the years.