Professor of Jewish Philosophy at Bar Ilan University

Remember, remember, the fourth of November!

Nov 4, 2025, 6:23 PM

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Thousands of the Oslo Peace agreement supporters, gathered in the Tel Aviv Municipality plaza, to incurage Rabin's government toward the final solution with the Palestians. Rabin was killed on his way home leaving the Tel Aviv municipality building. 04/11/95. Photo shows: PM Rabin Itzhak addressing to the thousands of supporters.
1995/11/04 Copyright © IPPA 25142-001-16
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By Photographer: Israel Press and Photo Agency (I.P.P.A.) / Dan Hadani collection, National Library of Israel / CC BY 4.0, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=111391444

Remember, remember!
The fourth of November,
The gunpowder, the treason, the plot!
I know of no reason
Why the Kahanist treason
Should ever be forgot!

Yigal Amir
With too little fear
Did the scheme contrive
To shoot Rabin
While at the scene
Not leaving the PM alive.

This heinous act,
Was increasingly backed
By future Knesset lists
Who govern the police
And disrupt the peace,
Disguised as former Kahanists.

Now they call for suspension
Of the Geneva Convention
And of all practices democratic.
They react with guffaw
To the very rule of law
And make Israel increasingly fanatic.

About the Author

Yehuda Halper is Professor in the department of Jewish Philosophy at Bar Ilan University. He directs the Israel Science Foundation, Research Grant: "Samuel Ibn Tibbon's Explanation of Foreign Terms and the Foundations of Philosophy in Hebrew." His 2021 book, Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age without Plato won the Goldstein-Goren book award for best book in Jewish Thought 2019-2021.