Editing Yitzhak Rabin (section)

===Family background===
Rabin was born at [[Shaare Zedek Medical Center]] in [[Jerusalem]] on 1 March 1922, [[Mandatory Palestine]], to Nehemiah (1886 – 1 December 1971) and Rosa (née Cohen; 1890 – 12 November 1937)  Rabin, immigrants of the [[Third Aliyah]], the third wave of Jewish immigration to Palestine from Europe. Nehemiah was born Nehemiah Rubitzov in the [[shtetl]] Sydorovychi near [[Ivankiv]] in the southern [[Pale of Settlement]] (present-day [[Ukraine]]).<ref>{{cite web|author=izrus.co.il|url=http://jewish.kiev.ua/news/3383/|title=Доказано украинское происхождение Ицхака Рабина &#124; Еврейские новости мира и Украины &#124; ВЕК – Всеукраинский еврейский конгресс|publisher=Jewish.kiev.ua|date=18 March 2010|access-date=31 August 2011|archive-date=26 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426050535/http://jewish.kiev.ua/news/3383/|url-status=dead}}</ref> His father Menachem died when he was a boy, and Nehemiah worked to support his family from an early age. At the age of 18, he emigrated to the United States, where he joined the [[Poale Zion]] party and changed his surname to Rabin. In 1917, Nehemiah Rabin went to Mandatory Palestine with a group of volunteers from the [[Jewish Legion]].

Yitzhak's mother, Rosa Cohen, was born in 1890 in [[Mogilev]] in Belarus. Her father, a [[rabbi]], opposed the [[Zionism|Zionist]] movement and sent Rosa to a Christian high school for girls in [[Gomel]], which gave her a broad general education. Early on, Rosa took an interest in political and social causes. In 1919, she traveled to Palestine on the steamship ''[[Ruslan (ship)|Ruslan]]''. After working on a [[kibbutz]] on the shores of the [[Sea of Galilee]], she moved to Jerusalem.<ref>[http://www.dadalos.org/int/Vorbilder/vorbilder/rabin/leben.htm#Eltern Yitzhak Rabin&nbsp;– from soldier to Nobel Peace Prize Laureate] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100516224539/http://www.dadalos.org/int/vorbilder/vorbilder/Rabin/leben.htm#Eltern |date=16 May 2010 }} Dadalos</ref>

Rabin's parents met in Jerusalem during the [[1920 Nebi Musa riots]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Slater|first1=Robert|title=Rabin of Israel: Biography of the Embattled Prime Minister|date=1993|publisher=St. Martin's Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-312-09368-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/rabinofisrael0000slat/page/25 25]|url=https://archive.org/details/rabinofisrael0000slat/page/25}}</ref> They moved to [[Tel Aviv]]'s Chlenov Street near [[Jaffa]] in 1923. Nehemiah became a worker for the [[Israel Electric Corporation|Palestine Electric Corporation]] and Rosa was an accountant and local activist. She became a member of the Tel Aviv City Council.<ref>Slater, pp. 27–28</ref> The family moved again in 1931 to a two-room apartment on Hamagid Street in Tel Aviv.<ref>Slater, p. 34</ref>