Tens of thousands gather to mourn Yitzhak Rabin

Tens of thousands of Israelis packed the Tel Aviv square where Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated 10 years ago to mourn the former prime minister and to express hopes that his memory would spur new efforts to bring peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

Rabin’s killing by an ultranationalist Jew opposed to the premier’s peace efforts with the Palestinians stunned the country a decade ago, revealing the depth of Israel’s internal conflicts and badly damaging dreams of peace.