"You have returned to your home that you loved so much, it hurts to think you will no longer be here": Rachel Rabin laid to rest

Rachel Rabin-Yaakov, the sister of assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, was laid to rest at the age of 101 in Kibbutz Manara, which she helped found. At the funeral, her sons Yiftah and Gadi eulogized her, with Gadi accusing the government of evacuating her. Her granddaughter Alona eulogized her as a loving and devoted figure.

Rachel Rabin-Yaakov, the younger sister of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin who was assassinated in 1995, was laid to rest on Monday at Kibbutz Manara on the Lebanon border, which she helped found. She passed away on Friday, the eve of the holiday, at the age of 101. At the funeral, her sons Yiftah and Gadi eulogized her, alongside her granddaughter Alona. Yiftah said: "Today, after nearly three years of wretched refugee status forced upon you, you have returned to your home that you loved so much." Gadi accused: "In the three years you were evacuated from your home by a decision of the government of abandonment, crime, malice, and evil." President Isaac Herzog, whose words were read aloud, recalled her choice not to leave under fire in 1948. Dan Ilan, a veteran of the kibbutz, described her as a fighter: "Rachel, the wireless operator of the Haganah... the nurse in the War of Independence." Yiftah described her complex relationship with death, which began with early orphanhood from her mother Rosa when she was 12, and continued with the loss of friends in battles and minefields, and her son who fell in the Yom Kippur War. Alona eulogized: "Blue and kind eyes that always looked at me with care."