Editing Yitzhak Rabin (section)

==Opposition Knesset member (1990–1992)==
In "[[the dirty trick]]", the Labor Party left the coalition of the 23rd government in an effort to form a new coalition to be led by Peres. This failed as [[Yitzhak Shamir]] formed the [[Twenty-fourth government of Israel|24th government]] with Labor in the opposition for the remainder of the [[List of members of the tenth Knesset|10th Knesset]].

From 1990 to 1992, Rabin again sat on the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.<ref name="auto"/>

Following the backfiring of "the dirty trick" on Peres and the Labor Party, Rabin unsuccessfully attempted to persuade the party to schedule a leadership election in 1990.<ref name="Brinkley1"/><ref name="Deihl"/> A prospective leadership race in 1990 had looked promising to Rabin. Peres was weakened from the backfiring of "the dirty trick", and polling showed Rabin to be the nation's most popular politician. Additionally, many of Peres' longtime backers in the party had begun shifting their support to Rabin.<ref name="Deihl"/> In July 1990, the Labor Party's 120 member Leadership Bureau voted to recommend that the party hold an immediate leadership election.<ref name="Deihl"/> However, one week later, on 22 July 1990, the 1,400 member Labor Party Central Committee voted 54 to 46% against holding an immediate leadership contest.<ref name="Brinkley1"/><ref name="Deihl">{{cite news |last1=Diehl |first1=Jackson |title=Israeli Labor Party Ends Rabin's Takeover Bid |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/07/23/israeli-labor-party-ends-rabins-takeover-bid/71c660f3-29b1-4a6a-9cda-cbe637f26358/ |newspaper=Washington Post |date=23 July 1990}}</ref> This set the party up to not hold a leadership election until at least following year, unless the next Knesset election were to have been scheduled earlier than the anticipated 1992.<ref name="Brinkley1">{{cite web |last1=Brinkley |first1=Joel |title=Perez Overcomes Rabin Challenge  |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/23/world/peres-overcomes-rabin-challenge.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=8 February 2022 |date=23 July 1990}}</ref> The committee's vote to reject Rabin's push for a 1990 leadership contest was regarded as an [[Upset (competition)|upset]] result.<ref name="Brinkley1"/>

===Return to party leadership===
[[1992 Israeli Labor Party leadership election|In its 1992 leadership election]], Rabin was elected as chairman of the Labor Party, unseating Shimon Peres.<ref name="Kenig"/>