Rabin in numbers: How many streets and squares were named after the Prime Minister?

Eliezer the Lion
October 26, 2015   
20 years have passed since Rabin was assassinated • Channel 2 went out to investigate: How many streets were named after him? How many squares? How many schools in Israel and abroad bear his name? How many books have been written about the man? • The answers are inside
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The State of Israel is currently marking 20 years since the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and Channel 2 examined how the man was commemorated in numbers: How many streets, squares, and books were written and named in his memory?

So here are the data.

37 Streets in Israel were named after the late Prime Minister (for comparison, there are 54 streets named after Ben-Gurion, and 49 named after Chaim Weizmann).

12 Squares were named after Rabin.

37 Schools and educational centers named their institutions after him.

border crossing one Named after the murdered Prime Minister.

Rabin was also commemorated abroad: 4 Parks were named after him, And two Schools chose to call themselves 'Yitzhak Rabin'.

And how many books have been written about Yitzhak Rabin since his assassination?

It turns out that no less than193 Books in13 Various languages, including Japanese, Swedish, Romanian, and Polish, have written about the man, the murder, and his 'legacy of peace.'.

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