Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin home of the assassin. Many other streets and public buildings around the country were named for Rabin as well. The assassination has been described as emblematic of a "kulturkampf" ("cultural struggle") between religious right-wing and secular left-wing forces within israel. Ilan Peleg of the Middle East Institute has described Rabin's assassination as "reflecting a deep cultural divide within Israel's body politic [...] intimately connected with the peace process" which illustrates both increased polarization and political conflict in the country. On 28 March 1996, the Shamgar Commission issued its final report into the assassination. It was critical of Shin Bet for
Gad Yaacobi the Rafi party. When Rafi merged into the Labor Party (which formed part of the alliance known as the Alignment), he was appointed to the party's bureau. In the 1969 election, he was elected to the Knesset, and in 1972 was appointed Deputy Transportation Minister. In 1974 he was appointed Transportation Minister by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, a position he held until the 1977 election. In 1984, in the joint Alignment – Likud government, Yaacobi served as Minister of Economy and Planning until 1987, when he was appointed Minister of Communications – a position he held again in the 23rd