Friday, November 4, 2005

Spotlight
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated after speaking at a peace rally in Tel Aviv ten years ago today. A year earlier, Rabin had shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat for the Oslo Accords of 1993. Later in 1994, Rabin and Jordanian King Hussein signed a peace treaty between their two countries. Rabin, Israel's first native-born prime minister, was born in Jerusalem and raised in Tel Aviv.

Quote
"You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies." – Yitzhak Rabin

Today in History

• King Tutankhamen: tomb discovered in Luxor, Egypt, by Howard Carter (1922)
• Nellie T. Ross: became first female governor of a US state – Wyoming (1924)
• Iran hostage crisis: mob seized the US Embassy in Teheran after the US admitted the exiled shah (1979)

Today's Birthdays

• Will Rogers: humorist who famously "never met a man he didn't like" (1879-1935)
• Walter Cronkite: TV news anchor who was "the most trusted man in America" (89)
• actors: Doris Roberts (75), Matthew McConaughey (36)

Word of the Day
 sabra: a native-born Israeli, named for the prickly-pear cactus that grows in Israel, prickly on the outside and sweet on the inside; Rabin was a sabra.   (© )