Yitzhak Rabin journalist Dan Margalit revealed that a joint dollar account in the names of Yitzhak and Leah Rabin, opened in a Washington, D.C., bank during Rabin's term of office as Israel ambassador (1968–73), was still open, in breach of Israeli law. According to Israeli currency regulations at the time, it was illegal for citizens to maintain foreign bank accounts without prior authorization. Rabin resigned on 8 April 1977, following the revelation by "Maariv" journalist S. Isaac Mekel that the Rabins held two accounts in Washington, not one, containing $10,000, and that a Finance Ministry administrative penalty committee fined them IL150,000. Rabin
Dalia Rabin-Pelossof Dalia Rabin-Pelossof Dalia Rabin-Pelossof (, born 19 March 1950) is a former Israeli politician. The daughter of former Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Yitzhak Rabin, she served as a member of the Knesset for the Centre Party, New Way and the Labor Party between 1999 and 2003. Born in 1950, Rabin-Pelossof gained an LLB and worked as an attorney. For the 1999 elections she was placed sixth on the Centre Party list, and entered the Knesset as the party won six seats. She was appointed chairwoman of the Ethics Committee. On 6 March 2001 she and two other Centre