Jerusalem, July 23: Israel's deputy minister of defence Dalia Rabin-Philosof, whose father prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated in 1995, has resigned from the government, public radio said here. Rabin-Philosof was quoted by the radio as saying last evening she wanted to dedicate herself to a foundation created to preserve the political legacy of her father, one of the main architects of the 1993 Oslo peace accords with the Palestinians.
Rabin-Philosof, 51, was the first woman to occupy her post. A lawyer and a mother of two, she served in one of the army's elite units during her military service. She entered politics in 1999 with the newly founded center party, but later switched to her father's labor party.
She became a familiar figure to Israelis after her father was gunned down by a right-wing Jewish extremist during a Tel Aviv peace rally in November of 1995.
She was the first member of her family to speculate the murder was part of a plot and said she believed there were still many open questions about it.

Bureau Report