Yitzhak Rabin the man, the fighter, the commander, the statesman, is remembered first and foremost as a leader. Those who met him and were impressed by his special personality, and those who followed his military and political path, immediately noticed his leadership. His ability to make decisions, sometimes tough and life-risking decisions, the depth of though, the huge experience, the richness.

A non-impassioned leadership, which draws its power and strength not from false talk but from quiet in-depth treatment, from personal and national baggage like no other, and from the knowledge that he is serving something which is bigger and more important than him, and all of us.

I served under Yitzhak Rabin, the prime minister and defense minister, in several junctions as a fighter and as a commander in the IDF, and in all of them Rabin was – to me and to the members of my generation – an authority, a leader who allowed us to sleep peacefully knowing that his hands were on the national security wheel, and someone we could definitely learn everything from.

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